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gizmodo.com - 30 days ago

Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2 [Obits]

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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 ...

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liliputing.com - 11/3/2009

OLPC scraps XO-2 dual screen laptop, moves toward ARM-based XO-1.75

— liliputing.com — 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 ... (more) OLPC scraps XO-2 dual screen laptop, moves toward ...

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slashgear.com - 11/3/2009

OLPC scrap dual-display XO-2; single-sheet “model 3.0 slate” in works

— 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 ... (more) OLPC scrap dual-display XO-2; single-sheet “model 3.0 ...

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Gizmología:  La segunda generación del portátil XO con doble pantalla muere

Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk:  OLPC XO-2 cancelled: tablet will be developed next

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Hear! Hear! RT @GeekLoop: Gizmodo: Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2 [Obits] http://bit.ly/1UQC2g 11/4/2009

Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2 [Obits] : It has always been an unspoken fear—or assumpti.. http://bit.ly/1UQC2g 11/3/2009

Gizmodo: Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2 [Obits] http://bit.ly/1UQC2g #tech #news 11/3/2009

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La segunda generación del portátil XO con doble pantalla muere
Gizmología — ... fabricación subió bastante, otro de los problemas a los que se enfrentó fue que Intel empezó a vender su Intel Atom, un procesador pensado para el primer OLPC) a cualquier fabricante, siendo Asus quien tomó la delantera presentado el primer netbook, el Asus Eee PC 700. Esto provocó que se tuviese que replantear el portátil del proyecto OLPC, tardando en salir y finalmente por un precio superior a aquellos prometidos $100. Vía: Gizmodo ...

OLPC XO-2 cancelled: tablet will be developed next
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... Personally, I'm sad to see the casual demise of the XO-2 concept, even though Gizmodo has dismissed it with the headline: Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2. However, ...