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OLPC XO

A work in progress rather than a finished product, the XO has much to recommend it. However, there are substantive issues to address if it's to live up to its creators' lofty ideals in practice.

March 11, 2008 by Rupert Goodwins

OLPC XO

<p> The <a href="http://laptop.org/">One Laptop Per Child</a> (OLPC) project is unique, as is its first product, the <a href="http://laptop.org/laptop/">XO</a>. Designed to bring educational computing to children in the developing world, the XO's bright green-accented casework, rabbit-ear Wi-Fi antennas and highly customised software are designed as much to differentiate it from more mainstream products as to provide focused functionality for its intended task. Although OLPC operated a <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ask_OLPC_a_Question_about_Give_1_Get_1/Summary">Give One Get One</a> scheme for two weeks at the end of 2007, the XO is not currently available for the general public to buy. </p>

March 11, 2008 by Rupert Goodwins

OLPC meltdown - or, the side-effects of working closely with Nickneg.

Interested in the One Laptop Per Child project? Make a cup of tea, sit down and read this 4500 word impassioned essay from Ivan Krstić, the man who used to be in charge of the security side of the OLPC project.

May 14, 2008 by Rupert Goodwins

One Laptop Executive Per Month

That's roughly the attrition rate at OLPC HQ, where former President of Software and Content Walter Bender has now joined ex-CTO Mary Lou Jepsen (departed January) and ex-Director of Security Ivan Krstić (February) in picking up his laptop and walking. Before he left, Bender had been moved to be Director of Deployment, a move widely considered as a demotion and one of the things that Krstić quoted as a reason for going.

April 22, 2008 by Rupert Goodwins

Play Video

Dialogue Box 3.1: Another fine Mesh...

To kick off series 3, Dialogue Box examines three low-power laptops and takes the OLPC XO into the field on a secret mission

March 11, 2008 by Rupert Goodwins

In pictures: One Laptop Per Child

Nicholas Negroponte shows off a prototype OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) at NetEvents in Hong Kong.

December 6, 2006 by Rupert Goodwins

Photo gallery: One Laptop per Child

Nicholas Negroponte shows off a prototype OLPC (One Laptop per Child) at NetEvents in Hong Kong.

December 7, 2006 by Rupert Goodwins

Negroponte at NetEvents

[These are some pretty raw notes from Negroponte's presentation at NetEvents, Hong Kong, as it happens. He's showing off the first "production laptop" - although it's not the finished electronics.

December 1, 2006 by Rupert Goodwins