OLPC announced the XO 3.0 tablet yesterday, and today we had a chance to sit down with the company's CTO, Ed McNierney and Marvell's Chief Marketing Officer Tom Hayes, who gave us a tour of the new tablet. The XO 3.0 is powered by Marvell Armada PXA618 silicon, which lowers the power requirements of the tablet to a scant 2 watts. That chip, along with the custom charging circuitry developed by OLPC and Marvell means that the tablet can be charged by a hand crank at a 10:1 ratio (10 minutes of usage time for every minute spent cranking), or by the optional four watt solar panel cover at a 2:1 ratio on sunny days. Like other OLPC devices, the XO 3.0 is customizable to customer needs -- so you can get the CPU clocked at 800Mhz or 1GHz, a 1500 - 1800 mAh battery, and your choice of a Pixel Qi or standard LCD display. The slate comes with 512MB of RAM, 4GB of NAND storage, USB and USB On-The-Go ports, plus the standard OLPC power and sensor input ports as well.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/08/olpcs-xo-3-0-tablet-hands-on/
Update 21 May 2008
Second generation OLPC
Smaller with a touch screen and a price of 75 dollars.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization focused on providing educational tools to help children in developing countries "learn learning," announced today that work is already underway on a second- generation version of its revolutionary XO laptop computer. Leveraging new advances in technology, the primary goal of the "XO-2" will be to advance new concepts of learning as well as to further drive down the cost of the laptop so that it is affordable for volume purchase by developing nations.
Update 10 January 2008According to Negroponte OLPC and Microsoft are working on a dualboot facility this will enable the OLPC to run a slimmed down version of XP or Fedora Linux.
Negroponte also mention the possibility of a cooperation between Olpc and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Source: Tweakers.net
Updated 27 November 2007
Politics stifling $100 laptop
A lack of "big thinking" by politicians has stifled a scheme to distribute laptops to children in the developing world, a spokesman has said.
Updated 24 September 2007Negroponte also mention the possibility of a cooperation between Olpc and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Source: Tweakers.net
Updated 27 November 2007
Politics stifling $100 laptop
A lack of "big thinking" by politicians has stifled a scheme to distribute laptops to children in the developing world, a spokesman has said.
Give 1 Get 1 scheme will start 12 November for just 2 week. Is finally happing? So far the $100 mark has not been met.
Updated 23 July 2007'$100 laptop' production beginsFive years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production. The XO will be produced in Taiwan by Quanta, the world's largest laptop manufacturer.
Updated 10-Jan-2007
Public can purchase 100$ laptop
But customers will have to buy two laptops at once - with the second going to the developing world.
Updated 02-Jan-2007
The 100$ laptop program launches in 2007 read more at BBC
More info:
MIT
100$ laptop homepage (laptop.org/)
Why not sell these Laptops (developed by MIT) in the West for double the price so for each laptop sold in the "developed world" a free laptop can be given to the "World's Kids".
U.N. Backs $100 Laptop For World's Kids
Updated 08 June 2007
ASUS has announced a $199,- laptop at Computex 2007Asus' Eee PC 701. The $199 price tag seemed to be for real, but that's probably just the starting point. A version for "English speaking countries" could hit the streets "as early as August this year".
See: engadget
Will this mean competition for the $100,- laptop program?
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