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OLPC XO-1 (One Laptop Per Child) review

Reviews It's easy to download new software from OLPC's online library, and the selection of titles (all free and open-source) is growing daily. There should be no problems with viruses, either, as OLPC's new Bitfrost security system forgoes firewalls and...

Editor's rating   7.5

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7 January 2008, 13:55 > More matches in Reviews

OLPC XO-1 (One Laptop Per Child)

Digital Living This ultraportable is both a digital lifeline for children in developing countries and a cyber hippy's dream. Is this a revolutionary piece of kit or just a high-tech toy?

Tags: olpc, kit, tech, children

25 January 2008, 11:01 > More matches in Digital Living

WannabEees: Eee PC vs Elonex One vs OLPC vs EasyNote XS vs MSI Wind and more

Crave You might find the X-O1's Linux user interface tricky to master, but that wasn't much of a problem to us, since we wouldn't be seen dead with one in public anyway -- convenient carry handle or no convenient carry handle.Read the full OLPC XO-1...

12 March 2008, 11:17 > More matches in Crave

OLPC laptop to go on sale in US

News Starting on 12 November, One Laptop per Child will be offering a Give 1 Get 1 programme for a brief window of time," OLPC chair Nicholas Negroponte wrote on the XO donation site. In July, OLPC estimated the cost of manufacture to be $175 per laptop.

Tags: child, laptop, laptops, scheme

25 September 2007, 9:00 > More matches in News

OLPC laptop begins mass production

News The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project, started in 2005 by MIT professor Nicholas Analysts say the publicity Negroponte generated, along with concern OLPC's laptop might take business from commercial products, has prompted companies, including...

7 November 2007, 8:42 > More matches in News

News.blog: Intel and OLPC make up

News Intel has agreed to join the board of the OLPC and work with the organisation on possible "collaborations involving technology and educational content", according to a press release on Friday morning.

16 July 2007, 10:06 > More matches in News

Microsoft to trial XP on OLPC laptops

News OLPC) that would enable the user to choose to boot up either XP or OLPC's Fedora-based Sugar operating system, but admitted on Friday it had rejected the idea in favour of developing an XP-only iteration.

14 January 2008, 9:02 > More matches in News

News.blog: OLPC to get XP?

News In an interview with the Associated Press following the departure of the OLPC project's president, Nicholas The chairman and founder of the One Laptop Per Child initiative said in an interview on Tuesday that the XO laptop may switch from using...

Tags: operating system, laptop, source, linux

24 April 2008, 10:13 > More matches in News

New OLPC laptop looks way too cool for school kids

Crave But even if there are more Intel Classmate PCs and Eee PCs in the wild, don't count OLPC out just yet. The official press release points out four different areas where the new OLPC laptop will improve on the original:

Tags: generation, children, consumption, keyboards

21 May 2008, 11:30 > More matches in Crave

OLPC XO-1 (One Laptop Per Child)

Video A superbly designed tool for learning that will appeal to geeks as well as kids

7 January 2008, 13:55 > More matches in Video

News.blog: Intel quits OLPC project

News The news, first reported on Thursday by The Wall Street Journal in an email alert, comes just six months after Intel and OLPC founder Nick Negroponte agreed to settle their differences and join forces, united in their goal to bring computing power...

Tags: hands, laptops, children, laptop

4 January 2008, 9:18 > More matches in News

Photos: Nigerian students power up their laptops

News Khaled Hassounah, director of Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in Africa and the Middle East, has spent the last year touring schools in Nigeria. With the XO Children's Machine, OLPC hopes young students will have the tools...

13 April 2007, 12:15 > More matches in News

Brazilian kids to get first $100 laptops

News Brazilian president Luiz da Silva took delivery of the first device on Friday, which was presented to him by head of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation, Nicholas Negroponte. The OLPC foundation hopes to get the figure under the $100 mark by...

28 November 2006, 10:35 > More matches in News

$100 laptop gets working model

News Both the [industrial design] and the hardware had been shown separately in the past," Walter Bender, OLPC's president for software and content, said in an email to CNET.co.uk's sister site, News.com. The OLPC group was meeting this week with task...

25 May 2006, 10:29 > More matches in News

Photos from CES Unveiled: Vegas' opening night

Crave Speaking of products hogging the column inches, say hello to the OLPC. This particular OLPC is being shown off by AMD, because that's who makes the world-saving laptop's Shrek ears. We barely got out with our clothes still on, but we did capture a...

6 January 2008, 9:34 > More matches in Crave