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OLPC 2.0 — One Laptop Foundation Reboots

Posted by timothy on from the mouse-keeps-roaring dept.

Greg Huang writes "In early January, the One Laptop Per Child Foundation laid off half its staff and shed work on the Sugar graphical interface. Now, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte and president Chuck Kane for the first time detail the foundation's new plans, describe how the XO laptop will do what netbooks can't do, and share their hope to keep working with Sugar developer Walter Bender, who left OLPC last year."

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  1. Re:I'll take Pandora, thanks. by sexconker · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's not OUT yet, and is scheduled for sometime this year.
    They've had nothing but fuckups and bad luck so far trying to get the damn things into production.

    Aptly-named device is aptly-named.

  2. Re:too late by rpgdude · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can already buy eee PC 900A laptops for $200 at BestBuy. Those suckers have 9 inch screens, Atom processors, and a gig of RAM. So who needs this OLPC stuff?

    Exactly. The Eee PC is the same price and doesn't only come in a childish green color.