OLPC Gets a New Name, New Features

pickyouupatnine writes "According to a story on Ars Technica, the $100 MIT Laptop is now going to cost $140. It has a new name — it'll now be called the Children's Machine 1 (CM1). The added price comes with new features! The laptop will now come with a 400 MHz AMD processor, 512 Megs of Flash storage, an SD card slot, mic and headphone jacks, a built in camera, built-in wireless, and an 8-inch LCD at a 1280x900 resolution." From the article: "Tremendous progress has been made this summer on the Sugar user interface system that will be shipped with the CM1. Funded by Google through the Summer of Code (SoC) initiative, intrepid college student Erik Pukinskis has collaborated with the GNOME development community to adapt AbiWord for use with the portable Linux system. Although still experimental, AbiWord has successfully been integrated into the Sugar environment. Artists and developers continue to work on the evolving Sugar interface, and the fruits of their labor can be seen in demoes, mockups, and design reviews."

Comments

Re:Stop this elitist culture of whining

[grozzie2]

Take a look at programs where governments (pick your favorite, or not so favorite one) spend billions of dollars a day and have little chance of positive impact on poor kids in remote locations.

for a measly hundred million a day, you can invade thier country, kill thier uncles and aunts, maim thier parents, and have plenty left over to blow up all the bridges, destroy the power plants and replace thier government with a set of puppets whose main purpose in life is to try stay alive. When it's all said and done, you can tell those kids just how much you have improved thier lives....

Re:Pushing the "porn machine"

[Ginger Unicorn]

is that like queef richards?

Re:Old Troll - OS X fanboism

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

You do realize that the only thing Overly Critical Guy ever does at any time whatsoever is troll, right?

Yes, yes I do. But I was just wondering if he ever gave up. Apparantly not - kinda like a bulldog.

Its almost like steve jobs pays him by the word.