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• How would you change the OLPC XO?

  Published: July 30, 2007, 10:58 am

  Tags: How Would You Change, Howwouldyouchange, Olpc

  hundred-dollar-and-change OLPC XO finally in full-scale production, what better candidate to help us stray from the traditional format? Keep in mind, though, as you're tearing the charitable unit apart, that it's not really meant for the readers and writers of Engadget (at least not yet), and therefore you're gonna look pretty silly suggesting

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• Carlos Slim to hook Mexico up with 'millions' of laptops

  Published: August 3, 2007, 2:01 pm

  Tags: Carlos Slim, Carlosslim, Children, Education, Learning, Mexico, Olpc, Plegde, School, Teaching

  Filed under: LaptopsCarlos Slim, who is (debateably) the richest man on the face of the planet, has recently pledged to do some good with all that fundage, and we'd say that donating "250,000 low-cost laptops to children by the end of the year and as many as one million in 2008" is a fine start. Noting "digital education" as the key for turning

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• OLPC XO reviewed... by a twelve-year-old

  Published: August 10, 2007, 4:31 pm

  Tags: Nicholas Negroponte, Nicholasnegroponte, Olpc, Olpc Xo, Olpcxo, One Laptop Per Child, Onelaptopperchild, Review

  the opportunity to take the OLPC XO for a test drive, and we've got the blow-by-blow for you. The critic, named "SG," has spent a lifetime using computers, and claims that he / she had low expectations, but the XO took him / her "by surprise," calling the child-centric green laptop "cleverly designed, imaginative, [and] straightforward." The

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• Intel inside the next XO OLPC?

  Published: August 11, 2007, 11:26 pm

  Tags: 100 Laptop, 100laptop, Intel, Olpc, Xo 1, Xo 2

  laptop to emerge from the OLPC organization be powered by Intel chips? That's the suggestion of OLPC News, which sees the FAQ attached to Intel's announcement of joining the board at OLPC as a sign that Intel's chips could work their way into the XO-2. At the very least, the servers that support the $100 XO PCs will be Intel based: quoting

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• Laptops: $100 OLPC Laptop Gets Another Price Hike

  Published: September 14, 2007, 4:15 pm

  Tags: 100, 100, Laptops, Mit, Olpc

  The $100 laptop—which was already up to a hefty $175, has gotten yet another price bump to $188. A spokesman says they're committed to keeping the price from rising above $190, and probably below $200 if at all possible. It's very strange that the price keeps rising, seeing as it's been, what, two years since the project was announced, plus

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• "$100" OLPC XO-1 to cost at least $188, over $200 in Uruguay

  Published: September 15, 2007, 6:52 pm

  Tags: 100 Laptop, 100laptop, Olpc, Olpc Foundation, Olpcfoundation, Xo 1

  even more than that, with OLPCNews reporting that the cost per laptop in Uruguay is $205 due to a partnership with Brighstar Uruguay SA. Negroponte, maybe it's time to change that "$100 laptop" tagline.Read - Nonprofit group hikes price of "$100 laptop" (Reuters)Read - OLPC XO-1: Now $205 in Uruguay (OLPCNews) Permalink Email this

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• $100 OLPC Laptop Gets Another Price Hike

  Published: September 14, 2007, 4:15 pm

  Tags: Computers, Computers, News, Notebooks, Olpc

  The $100 laptop—which was already up to a hefty $175, has gotten yet another price bump to $188. A spokesman says they're committed to keeping the price from rising above $190, and probably below $200 if at all possible. It's very strange that the price keeps rising, seeing as it's been, what, two years since the project was announced, plus

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• Famous $100 Laptop To Cost $188

  Published: September 17, 2007, 4:42 pm

  Tags: Gamer Life, Children All Over The World, Child Project, Laptop Project, Not For Profit Organization, Olpc

  famous laptop project by the OLPC project will now cost $188 instead of $100. The One Laptop Per Child project has been plagued with problems for some time now. The price has nearly been doubled by the not-for-profit organization to cover losses and fill a void with the inability to book orders. According to The Times Online, 5 billion of the

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• Macedonia to give every student a PC

  Published: September 18, 2007, 12:15 am

  Tags: Classroom Computing, Classroomcomputing, Macedonia, Ncomputing, Olpc, Thin Client, Thinclient

  under: Desktops While the OLPC continues its slow rollout and finds its price slowly climbing, it looks like other companies are aggressively going after NickNeg's target markets -- Macedonia just announced a deal with NComputing to provide every student with a thin client "classroom computing device" that will link up to an account on a Linux

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• OLPC's XO gets previewed in its "final" form

  Published: September 19, 2007, 12:05 pm

  Tags: 188, Hands On, Olpc, Olpc Xo, Olpcxo

  final production runs of the OLPC XO for who knows how long, but the $188 laptop is finally in production and soon to be landing in the laps of school children the world over. The folks and Laptop Magazine got their hands on what is ostensibly the final production version and put it through its paces. Everything seemed to work as advertised: a

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• OLPC Sales: OLPC Releases Details of Christmas Sales Initiative

  Published: September 23, 2007, 10:00 pm

  Tags: Buy 1 Give 1, Olpc, Olpc Sales, Xo Laptop

  for purchase in the US via OLPC's "Give 1 Get 1" program. The business model is interesting; essentially, the cost of ownership shall be $400 for one XO laptop. The price shall also provide funding for a second XO laptop that will be donated, on your behalf, to a qualifying child in a developing nation. Orders shall be taken for two

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• OLPC announces $399 "Give 1 Get 1" holiday XO promo

  Published: September 23, 2007, 9:47 pm

  Tags: Give 1 Get 1, Give1get1, Olpc

  last for a limited time -- OLPC News has it on good authority the promo will go for two weeks, and the machines will ship to your door in time for Christmas -- but it's never to early or late to donate toward the project in general. $200 will build and ship a laptop to one of those millions of kids who totally needed to be playing Doom

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• Consumers Asked to Lend $100 Laptop Initiative A Hand

  Published: September 24, 2007, 9:59 am

  Tags: Kendall Square Blog, Computers, Education, 100 Laptop, Olpc

  Education, $100 laptop, OLPC Robert Buderi wrote:With early orders, principally from governments in developing nations, for its lime-green, crank-powered, and low-cost XO laptop computer running short of what’s needed to trigger mass production, the One Laptop Per Child project is today kicking off two initiatives that will

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• Nicholas Negroponte: Oh, no laptops per child?

  Published: September 25, 2007, 3:11 pm

  Tags: Nicholas Negroponte, Olpc, Top

  Nicholas Negroponte of the One Laptop Per Child initiative is waking up to the business realities of equipping millions with low cost hardware: "I have to some degree underestimated the difference between shaking the hand of a head of state and having a check written." No kidding. Some degree? A commitment for three million down to no orders for

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• Uruguay reportedly set to buy 100,000 OLPC XO laptops

  Published: October 4, 2007, 1:28 pm

  Tags: Olpc, Olpc Xo, Olpcxo, Uruguay

  process in which the OLPC competed against Intel's Classmate PC. That ultimately ended with the OLPC narrowly beating out Intel's offering by a score of 56.84 to 53.06, with the OLPC's cheaper price apparently the determining factor.[Via OLPC News]  Read Permalink Email this CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360

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