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OLPC's Negroponte Not Exactly Looking For a Successor (Plus XO Getting Windows in 60 Days)
Reports of OLPC's Negroponte looking for a replacement to fill his CEO role were a bit unfounded, as the man himself just claimed that the organization HAS no CEO, and that whatever the replacement does, it won't be what Negroponte is doing. Negroponte says: More »
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OLPC Shipments May Not Be as Screwed Up as Previously Thought
We have all heard about the endless problems OLPC is having with its shipments. However, an email sent to one of our own stated that the production schedule is "still on track" and that the laptop he ordered is expected to be delivered "by the middle or the end of March." This comes despite the fact that the laptop was purchased at the last possible minute. Did anyone else who ordered an XO receive a similar email recently, or is your order still in limbo?
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XO Laptops Ship Today
The OLPC XO laptops that we've heard so much about finally ship today. Those generous enough to both give a laptop and get a laptop this holiday season should receive their system in plenty of time for Christmas (though Hanukkah finds itself shafted again). Formerly scheduled for a December 14 to December 24 delivery, we're not sure of their precise shipping expediency, but it looks like the OLPC factories might actually be ahead of schedule. Is anyone expecting a package and the warm karma a faceless child? [olpcnews]
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OLPC's XO Laptop and Asus's Eee PC have been bloody rivals in people's minds, whether or not the totally comparison's fair. The Eee's well-reviewed and popular, while XO's target audience has poo-pooed on it and the WSJ has laid out how it's being murdered by competition. Nonetheless, Laptop Mag aims to settle a running thread in our own comments: Which super cheap laptop reigns supreme?
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Cheap Laptop Deathmatch: OLPC XO Laptop Vs. Asus Eee PC
OLPC's XO Laptop and Asus's Eee PC have been bloody rivals in people's minds, whether or not the totally comparison's fair. The Eee's well-reviewed and popular, while XO's target audience has poo-pooed on it and the WSJ has laid out how it's being murdered by competition. Nonetheless, Laptop Mag aims to settle a running thread in our own comments: Which super cheap laptop reigns supreme?
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Even if governments aren't ponying up, a hell of a lot of people are: OLPC's Give One, Get One program's been pulling in $2 million in "donations" a day. Realizing it'd be dumb and pointless to cut off a major revenue stream in four days—totally missing prime holiday spending time—they're stretching the new "deadline" way out to Dec. 31.
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OLPC Give One, Get One Program Extended to Dec. 31, Raking in $2 Million a Day
Even if governments aren't ponying up, a hell of a lot of people are: OLPC's Give One, Get One program's been pulling in $2 million in "donations" a day. Realizing it'd be dumb and pointless to cut off a major revenue stream in four days—totally missing prime holiday spending time—they're stretching the new "deadline" way out to Dec. 31.
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OLPC's Give 1 Get 1 Program Starts Now
The OLPC's Christmas initiative, also known as Give 1 Get 1, is starting now. What this means to you is you can pay $399 for two laptops, one of which you get to keep and the other you get to send to a child. The only caveat is that you can't specify where your donated laptop is going to go, in case you really want to be helping one country over another. But hey, you get a free copy of SimCity!.[Laptop Mag]
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OLPC Starts Mass Production in China
The $200 OLPC XO laptop has finally hit mass production (a full two years after it was announced), and is now being churned out at a plant two hours northwest of Shanghai. Quanta, the Taiwanese company contracted to make the laptops (which are $200 in case you didn't see see that in the previous sentence) have since doubled its manufacturing capacity to make more of these XO laptops (which incidentally doubled in price from $100 to $200 since its inception) faster. [Bizjournals]
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OLPC XO Laptop for $20*
*You know about OLPC's Give 1 Get 1 initiative, where buyers will purchase a XO laptop for $399 , and included in the price will be the cost for a second laptop to be donated to a third world child. To back the plan, T-Mobile shall be offering one year's complimentary Wi-Fi HotSpot access for those participating. Since HotSpot access for a year would normally cost $359.98 that's (kinda) a XO laptop for $20. [Businesswire] More »
OLPC Laptop May Hit Retail Market By Christmas
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation told Reuters they're considering selling their XO laptop in stores for $350-$525 this coming holiday season. [Reuters]
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation told Reuters they're considering selling their XO laptop in stores for $350-$525 this coming holiday season. [Reuters]
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Asustek To Build $249 Classmate PC
It would seem that the shorties in developing countries are a hot new market indeed. Last month, we reported that Asustek, makers of the Asus-branded laptops, would be introducing a flash-based $199 laptop. Well, economics being how they are, the price is now looking like $249 (at the low-end, on up to $400), and the models are confirmed to be based on Intel's Classmate PC design: a 7" LCD at 800x480, an Ultra-Low Voltage (ULV) Celeron M 900 with no L2 cache, and 256MB of DDR-II, presumably with a version of Windows embedded in memory. More »
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OLPC: Now $175 and Windows XP Ready
Nick Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child initiative, announced that the price of the so-called "$100 laptop" would actually be $175 when manufacturer Quanta begins production this October. Earlier this year, we told you the OLPC might cost over $200, so even though this is a price hike, it's actually good news. Negroponte also announced that, in addition to the Linux-based OS we showed you earlier, OLPCs would now run Windows. More »
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OLPC: Tipping its Hat to the Apple M.O. - Kind of
The One Laptop Per Child project may have turned down Apple's offer of free Mac OS X for each machine in favour of making their own XO interface, but they're not averse to aping the way the Cupertino gang work. At least according to John Maeda, one of the grand poobahs at MIT who has been keeping an eye on the XO development process. "They're using the Steve Jobs method," says, John Maeda, an MIT design guru, "you don't use focus groups. You just do it right." Incidentally, the $100 laptop is now going for about $208 - that was the price when they did a deal with the Libyan authority (sic) back in October. More »
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