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First of the OLPCs Built

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the little-windup-that-could dept.

eldavojohn writes "An announcement came Sunday that the first ten prototypes of the Linux-powered OLPC XO-1 had been completed in China. From the article, 'Quanta, the Chinese computer maker that won the international bidding for the project earlier this year, will assemble 900 OLPC machines that will be used for destructive testing and distribution to our development partners.' Let's hope that these first prototypes do not warrant any design changes and that the testing goes well so that countries that expressed interest (Brazil, Libya, Nigeria, Argentina, and Thailand) can start distributing them soon."

2 of 145 comments (clear)

  1. Re:worse than that by meadowsp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So perhaps you should go hide under your bed and pray to big daddy bush to keep you safe.

  2. Built in China, bought by Brazil and India by monkeyboythom · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So are they going to outsource their IT and helpdesk support to that 3rd world country, the US?