liliputing.com - 11/3/2009
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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.
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olpcnews.com - 11/3/2009
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olpcnews.com —
This morning I woke up to find an
e-mail in my inbox which contained a link to...
an xeconomy.com interview with Nicholas Negroponte. While reading it over breakfast I managed to spill my tea because I couldn't believe I was really seeing the words I was ...
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Negroponte: XO-1.75 goes ARM, XO-2 is canceled
slashgear.com - 11/3/2009
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slashgear.com —
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 ...
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OLPC scrap dual-display XO-2; single-sheet “model 3.0 ...
gizmodo.com - 11/4/2009
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gizmodo.com —
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 ...
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Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2 [Obits]
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OLPC XO Laptop Will Be An eBook Computer By 2012
I4U News —
... that appeared in 2008. Via Liliputing . Posted on Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:08:57 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
OLPC shakeup: dual-screen XO-2 out, ARM-based XO 1.75 in
Engadget —
... ARM processor. Negroponte isn't completely giving up on the idea of a revamped OLPC, however, and says that model 3.0 will have a "totally different industrial design, more like a sheet of paper." That model apparently also includes "aspirational aspects" like an unbreakable, waterproof enclosure that's just a quarter inch thick, a full color, reflective and transmissive display with no bezel, 1W of power consumption, and (here's the real kicker) a $75 price tag by 2012.
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Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2 [Obits]
Gizmodo —
... his last project with a passing comment, so take it with a grain of salt. Whatever happens next—and mind you, things aren't looking too great for the project as a whole—this is a sad situation. As ambitious as the project was, and as little chance as it ever had to come to pass, it was a rare phenomenon: it was genuinely cool, tied to a reputable organization and conceived with a good cause in mind. And now it's dead. [Xconomy via OLPC News via Liliputing]
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OLPC scraps XO-2 dual screen laptop, moves toward ARM-based XO-1.75
Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks —
Submitted by Brad Linder - 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 Liliputing. ...
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