OLPC Set To Dump x86 For Arm Chips In XO 2

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 12, 2009 @06:36AM from the just-make-it-faster dept.

angry tapir writes with this excerpt from Good Gear Guide: "One Laptop Per Child is set to dump x86 processors, instead opting to put low-power Arm-based processors in its next-generation XO-2 laptop with the aim of improving battery life. The nonprofit is 'almost' committed to putting the Arm-based chip in the next-generation XO-2 laptop, which is due for release in 18 months, according to Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of OLPC. The XO-1 laptop currently ships with Advanced Micro Devices' aging Geode chip, which is based on an x86 design."

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Re:What does this mean for their WinXP models? by alannon · 2009-03-12 06:48 · Score: 5, Informative

It would mean no Windows. ARM is not an x86 architecture.
Re:Does Ubuntu run on ARM? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-12 07:06 · Score: 5, Informative

You know there is something called debian which runs on all sorts of architectures. And this debian resembles ubuntu somewhat :P Relevant link: http://www.debian.org/ports