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Robert Johnson has two regular computers at home, and an XO laptop he received during his fourth-grade year at Hemphill Elementary School. When asked which computer he prefers, there is no pause ...
The XO laptop made a considerable splash when it was announced to the world by Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop per Child (OLPC) non-profit organization. Tech enthusiasts were anxious to get their ...
The OLPC project announced today the next generation of its XO laptop. The news was expected--enthusiast sites such as OLPC News have been talking about it for a while--but this was the first time ...
I really wonder if this XO laptop program is going to fly. (Read our editorial here.) The XO is that Third World computer that Mayor Larry Langford and the City Council spent $3.5 million in tax ...
At OLPC’s Global Country workshop today, founder Nick Negroponte unveiled the next-gen XO Laptop, and it totally blows the original away. About half the XO 1.0’s size and more like a foldable ...
One Laptop Per Child shows off the first version of its XO laptop, including many features geared toward helping kids learn in their own environment The hardest thing about learning to use the ...
Another entry in the swelling mound of reports that the XO Laptop isn’t so noob-friendly after all—people needing help getting ’em going doesn’t spell “sweet” on the ease-of-use front.
Yves Béhar soon came on board to rework almost every other aspect of the laptop’s aesthetic The result was a distinctive-looking machine known as the XO-1: a toylike green-and-white laptop with ...
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation's XO computer may not seem like something that's going to revolutionize laptop computing as we know it, but it could end up doing just that. Although it's ...
On the outside, the Windows version of the XO laptop looks just like the Linux model. But simply booting up the device shows that the Windows version bears little resemblance to the original One ...
Second-generation XO laptop will continue to break through technology and cost barriers to deliver affordable learning tools for children in the poorest countries One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a ...
Repeat after me. The XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child project is designed for kids. Why bore yourself with that mantra? If you don't you may find yourself griping about something that wasn ...