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XO Available
Talkback TFA mentions "Production XO laptops (above, left) became available in November 2007". Are they still available? I'd love to get one for my kid but onl heard about give-one-get-one the day after it ended.
[March 3, 2008, 21:51]
Furniture Retailer Improves Quality Of Service With XO MPLS IP-VPN Service
White Papers Garber deployed XO for its solution and implemented MPLS IP-VPN which connected 13 J.D. J.D. Garber Furniture operates home furnishing stores under the brand names of Lane Home Furnishings and D&D Home Furnishings in the tri-state area of...
[July 11, 2008, 1:02]
Microsoft Quashes Rumours Of Dual-boot XO Laptop
News Software giant Microsoft has said it rejected plans to develop a dual-boot iteration of Windows XP to run on One Laptop per Child XO machines, and instead is developing a version of XP specifically for the XO.
[January 11, 2008, 13:04]
Windows On XO Laptops
Talkback Redmond will not stand still when someone tries to rub their nose in the dirt. But, it is hard to understand how they can strip down XP to run on this small machine. More memory requirements, more storage space, looks like they would have used CE.
[October 26, 2007, 13:58]
OLPC To Make XO Laptop Commercially Available
News The XO laptop, designed for use as an educational tool in developing countries, will be available under a scheme called "Give1 Get 1". Starting 12 November, One Laptop per Child will be offering a Give 1 Get 1 programme for a brief window of time...
[September 24, 2007, 17:17]
XO Laptop To Public
Talkback What better way than to sell some to the public to get some funds to off set the 'free' ones to children in the third world countries? PSION sold a solid state computer years ago the MC400, not every one wants a power hungry PC some times you just...
[July 23, 2007, 0:43]
Microsoft Officially Teams Up With OLPC
News The One Laptop Per Child project and Microsoft jointly announced on Thursday that the XO laptop will be available in both Linux and Windows varieties. The companies plan to sell a Windows-powered XO in five or six countries starting next month...
[May 16, 2008, 8:34]
OLPC Laptop Goes Into Mass Production
News The One Laptop per Child organisation has announced that its ruggedised laptop, the XO, is going into mass production. The XO laptop, which OLPC plans to sell eventually for $100 (£49) per machine, is designed to improve the educational...
[July 23, 2007, 18:08]
OLPCs Land At ZDNet Towers
Blog We are now the proud, if temporary, possessors of no fewer than four OLPC XO laptops. The XO is Nicholas Negroponte's brainchild: a machine that, he and his team hopes, will change the way education is delivered in developing countries.
[January 28, 2008, 11:44]
Meeting Airs Anger Against VeriSign
News David Schairer, vice president of broadband provider XO Communications, is frustrated by VeriSign's decision to redirect Web surfers who mistype domain names to its own advertising-based Web site. At an unprecedented public meeting on Tuesday to...
[October 8, 2003, 14:35]
Australia Set To Join OLPC Project
News Australia is set to get its very own OLPC arm, to deliver XO laptops to schoolchildren across the country. Seventy XO laptops were also given out at the Linux conference last week but Waugh said the giveaway was a linux.conf.au initiative...
[February 5, 2008, 7:14]
Introducing The OLPC's '$75 Laptop'
News Even with the price of what used to be known as the "$100 laptop" still hovering closer to the $200 (£100) mark, the organisation behind the XO laptop design is at work on a next-generation device with an even lower target price: $75.
[May 22, 2008, 10:53]
OLPC The Second
Blog Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project has been hitting the headlines for the wrong reasons recently, but that hasn't stopped OLPC from unveiling the successor to its XO notebook. The XO-2's standout features are its small size (about...
[May 21, 2008, 10:26]
Let Laptop Battle Commence
Blog The Classmate will go up against the OLPC XO and ASUS's Eee in our low-power computing project. First impressions of the sturdy, blue-clad Classmate are of a more traditional notebook than the XO: their screens are of similar size at 7in.and 7.5in...
[February 12, 2008, 9:22]
Intel Denies Disparaging OLPC
News On Monday One Laptop per Child (OLPC) founder Nicholas Negroponte claimed that one of the reasons for tensions resulting in Intel leaving the OLPC board was that the chip giant had "disparaged" OLPC XO laptops to partners and potential buyers.
[January 8, 2008, 13:14]
Negroponte: Windows Key To OLPC Philosophy
News The educational XO laptop has been built using free and open-source software — part of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project's drive to allow XO's young users to modify the laptop's software as they see fit.
[October 29, 2007, 8:15]
Photos: Nigerian Students Get To Grips With IT
News With the XO Children's Machine, OLPC hopes young students will have the tools to shape their own education. Hassounah explains that gaining the parents' understanding and support was crucial to choosing the school for the first deployment of the...
[April 12, 2007, 12:57]
Two Ways To Bring PCs To Emerging Nations
News By centralising manufacturing, One Laptop per Child (OLPC) says it can keep the cost of its XO computer to a minimum. Every country I visit, bar none, even the small ones, asks if they can build the XO in their country.
[February 28, 2007, 15:25]
True, But...
Talkback So, any venture into the commercial market in the developed world - where, let's be honest, a lot of people can afford to buy kids a developed-world laptop - would have to be extremely carefully managed to avoid making it OK to be seen with an XO...
[January 12, 2007, 14:43]
OLPC And Intel Bury The Hatchet
News The XO laptop at the heart of the project costs about $175 (£86) to produce, but Negroponte, founder of the non-profit-making OLPC, thinks they will sell for about $100 (£49) once production starts in earnest later this year.
[July 16, 2007, 8:18]
