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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

  work their way into the XO-2. At the very least, the servers that support the $100 XO PCs will be Intel based: quoting from the FAQ, it says that "OLPC is planning to add Intel Xeon processor based servers to their product offerings." Intel is also taking steps to develop a system board for the next gen XO, although all designs are subject

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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

  under: LaptopsThe "$100 laptop" from the OLPC Foundation is in no way a "$100 laptop." The latest price hike by the Foundation pushes the overall cost of each XO-1 machine up to $188, which is a fair amount higher than the $176 that the machine was said to cost back in May. On a per country basis, the laptops could cost even more than that,

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• OLPC Origins: US and Taiwan's Hardware Lovechild [Olpc Secret Origins]

  Published: August 27, 2008, 12:30 pm

  Tags: Olpc Secret Origins, 100 Laptop, Amd, Barry Lam, Feature, Intel, Mary Lou Jepsen, Michail Bletsas, Nicholas Negroponte, Olpc, One Laptop Per Child, Origins, Ottellini, Quanta, Top, Untold Story, Xo 1, Yves Behar

  able to present a "working" $100 laptop concept to Kofi Annan, UN secretary general. No longer did the machine rely on that pop-up rear-projection display; it was smaller, made of green plastic, and had a crank for the kids to work—for 10 straight minutes per hour of use—when they had no other access to electricity. It was a vast

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• OLPC Origin: Bittersweet Success and Future of the XO Laptop [Olpc]

  Published: August 28, 2008, 2:40 pm

  Tags: Olpc, 100 Laptop, Amd, Barry Lam, Classmate Pc, Eee, Eee Pc, Feature, Intel, Mary Lou Jepsen, Michail Bletsas, Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop Per Child, Origins, Otellini, Quanta, Top, Untold Story, Verizonbestmodo, Xo 1, Yves Behar

  the world's poor—the XO spent most of 2007 in beta testing. In early November, OLPC launched the "Give 1 Get 1" $400 charitable promotion for US buyers, but the first real bonafide XO deployment happened in Uruguay in on December 1. Confirmed orders might have topped a million at this point, but the number of existing XOs, both sold in

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