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Liliputing: OLPC scraps XO-2 dual screen laptop, moves toward ARM-based XO-1.75
I4U News: OLPC XO Laptop Will Be An eBook Computer By 2012
SlashGear: OLPC scrap dual-display XO-2; single-sheet “model 3.0 slate” in works
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RT @Think_Macro Looks like #OLPC is going through restructuring, rebranding & refocusing http://tinyurl.com/ygltc3z (via @OLPC) #ICT4D #XO 14 days ago |
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It looks like #OLPC is going through restructuring, rebranding, and refocusing: http://tinyurl.com/ygltc3z (via @OLPC) 15 days ago |
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@OLPC I had the pleasure to meet @nnegroponte last week and am still blown away by his vision! Amazing work! http://tinyurl.com/ygltc3z 15 days ago |
OLPC scraps XO-2 dual screen laptop, moves toward ARM-based XO-1.75
Liliputing —
... Remember that dual-touchscreen concept machine that the One Laptop Per Child folks were working on? Yeah, it’s toast. In a recent interview, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte told Xconomy that the team is killing off the XO-2 project and instead focusing on an XO Laptop version 1.75. ...
OLPC XO Laptop Will Be An eBook Computer By 2012
I4U News —
... Posted on Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:08:57 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr There is some information about the OLPC project of Nicholas Negroponte. Apparently the 2nd generation OLPC XO laptop will be only a hardware upgrade of the current model and OLPC focuses on a completely new design for the 3rd generation which is supposed to hit the market in 2012. Negroponte is quoted in an article on Xconomy that the XO 3.0 is a single sheet, completely plastic and unbreakable, waterproof, 1/4" thick, full color, reflective and transmissive, no bezel, no holes. 1W and a price of $75. As always ...
OLPC scrap dual-display XO-2; single-sheet “model 3.0 slate” in works
SlashGear —
OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte has revealed that the twin-display OLPC XO-2 2.0 project has been scrapped, in favor of an updated – but cosmetically identical – revamp of the existing 1.0 XO-1 model and a new, model 3.0 that has “totally different industrial design, more like a sheet of paper”. Speaking to Xconomy, the outspoken exec also sought to redefine the initial, well-publicized aim of “the $100 laptop” in terms of total cost of ownership: $1 per child per week to buy, maintain and connect the machine. ...
Negroponte: OLPC Dropping XO-2
dailywireless.org —
The dual-screen XO-2 design has been killed by One Laptop Per Child, reports Xconomy and OLPC News.
The Generation 2.0 XO laptop was to be a book-like pair of touchscreens, but would likely have been too expensive to build. Version 2.0 has been replaced by two things, according to Negroponte:
Model 1.75, same industrial design but an ARM inside
Model 3.0, totally different industrial design, more like a sheet of paper.
The current XO-1 laptop has a AMD ...
OLPC shakeup: dual-screen XO-2 out, ARM-based XO 1.75 in
Engadget —
... OLPC's plans for a dual-screen XO-2 laptop / tablet always seemed a little... ambitious, and it looks like even Nicholas Negroponte himself has now realized that it may be more than the organization is able to pull off at the moment. That word comes from a ...
Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2 [Obits]
Gizmodo —
It has always been an unspoken fear—or assumption, even—that the dual-touchscreen followup to the original OLPC, the XO-2, would never come to pass. But we let the dream live! Until today: the XO-2 is officially scrapped. Almost worse than the news that we'll never see this folding, hybrid LCD/E ink budget computer in the flesh is how the news was delivered: By Nick Negroponte, in a low-profile interview with Xconomy, as if it everyone already knew: 2.0 (the XO-2) has been replaced by two things: 1) model ...
OLPC scraps XO-2 dual screen laptop, moves toward ARM-based XO-1.75
Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks —
... The XO-2 with the dual touchscreen displays is dead. Instead the next XO Laptop will have an ARM processor and the same chassis as the current model. The next model after that could be the one to watch though. Details at Xconomy and ...
OLPC XO-2 cancelled: tablet will be developed next
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project has abandoned plans to produce an innovative dual-screen ebook/netbook, and is aiming for a tablet computer instead. There will also be an ARM-based version of the original XO-1 laptop, but this will not be able to run Microsoft Windows XP. In an interview with Xconomy Boston, Nicholas Negroponte, the project's founder, said: ...
2nd gen e-book machine dropped by OLPC—but group will do a paperlike 3rd gen device
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
One Laptop Per Chlld has “scrapped plans unveiled in May 2008 for an e-book-like second-generation XO laptop, instead focusing on an upgraded version of the current XO and designs for a ‘3.0’ version of the device that will be “more like a sheet of paper.” So reports Xconomy. Photo shows the dropped design. The “1.75” XO laptop will boast a faster CPU, from ARM.
About the third-gen, OLCP founder Nicholas Negroponte says he is aspiring toward “a single sheet, completely plastic and unbreakable, waterproof, 1/4" thick, ...
