Xo Laptop
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A laptop for every poor child
Insight Confidence molded from privileged beginnings helps Nicholas Negroponte sustain One Laptop per Child initiative and transform to date, learning for 900,000 children.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Development/design, Government, Leadership, Intel Corp., Craig Barrett, Bill Gates, India, One Laptop Per Child Project, Singapore
OLPC chief predicts Windows for ARM
News Nicholas Negroponte says he is convinced Microsoft will, within 18 months, make a version of Windows that can run on ARM-based architecture.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Processors, Microsoft Windows, ARM, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, XO Laptop, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows
Analyst: OLPC won't draw global PC makers
News The One Laptop Per Child's endeavor to have others copy its design, may attract Asian whitebox vendors rather than the likes of HP and Dell, according to IDC.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Development/design, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC Company, International Data Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Asia-Pacific, Spokesperson, nettop, mini-notebook
OLPC to laptop makers: Use our design
News Founder Nicholas Negroponte says the OLPC will open source its hardware design and invite others to copy it, according to a report from the TED conference.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Processors, Open source, Bill Gates, Conference, PC Company, One Laptop Per Child Project, One Laptop Per Child Initiative, Laptop Computer, blogging
OLPC laptop drops AMD for Via
News As part of a wider hardware refresh by the One Laptop per Child project, the XO laptop for education in developing countries will get a Via C7-M instead of an AMD Geode processor.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Processors, ARM, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, AMD Geode, performance, Hardware, software, processor
Give one laptop, get one sooner or later
News If you donated an XO device to the OLPC with the expectation of getting one back for yourself, you've probably been on hold for several months amid shipping snafus.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets
Microsoft squashes talk of dual-boot XO laptop
News Microsoft dismissed talk of a dual-boot XO laptop, after OLPC chairman and founder Nick Negroponte said that the two organizations are working on such a project.
Tags: Personal Computers
OLPC fires back at Intel, children learn nothing
News Nick Negroponte of the One Laptop Per Child project, came out swinging at Intel, one day after the chipmaker decided to leave the group.
Tags: Personal Computers
OLPC spinoff in talks with four laptop makers
News Sugar Laboratories wants to put its Linux software on more low-cost PCs for the One Laptop Per Child initiative.
Tags: Vendor selection, Windows XP, Linux, Open-source Software, One Laptop Per Child Project, Open Source, operating system, developing country, ASUS, software
Peru to try out Windows on XO laptops
News South American country will become first to use One Laptop Per Child devices running Windows in pilot program.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Notebooks and tablets, Microsoft Corp., Peru, One Laptop Per Child Project, operating system, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, knowledge
OLPC to make XO laptop commercially available
News For a limited time, U.S. buyers will be able to purchase, at US$399, one XO laptop for themselves and one for a child in the developing world.
Tags: Personal Computers, Open source
Ultra-low-cost PCs to hit 1M in 2008
News Ultra-low-cost hardware like Intel's Classmate PC will drive PC sales in the emerging markets like China, Indonesia and Malaysia, says Gartner.
Tags: Thin clients, Notebooks and tablets, SMB
OLPC, Microsoft working on dual-boot XO laptop
News The software giant is working with the One Laptop per Child body on a version that can boot both Linux and Windows.
Tags: Operating systems, Notebooks and tablets
Windows XO laptop heads to Colombia
News The Windows version of the One Laptop Per Child notebook will be used in the Colombian state of Cundinamarca.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Notebooks and tablets, Microsoft Corp., Peru, Training, One Laptop Per Child Project, Colombia, Computer, Laptop Computer, software training
AMD eyeing netbooks with low-power chip?
News A presentation slide for a new AMD processor has turned up, perhaps signaling the company's future intention to spruce up its products for small notebooks and handheld devices.
Tags: Mobile processors, Notebooks and tablets, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Mobile, Chip, Notebook, phone, AMD Geode, graphics chip, performance
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