Reading LAPTOP Magazine’s hands-on experience of the OLPC (formerly the $100 laptop, currently the $188 laptop) the one thing that leaped out at me was the ease of networking. Designed for use in areas sometimes disconnected from the internet, the OLPC relies on mesh networks of interconnected units that – if their experience is anything to go by – blows networking on “grown up” computers out of the water. One-click to create a shared environment - magic!
Back when the One Laptop Per Child program was announced, people were overjoyed by the cost of the notebook. A stunning $100 goal was set. Unfortunately, the price of the laptops keeps rising closer to double that.
The One Laptop per Child project has finally move into production phase and should be ready to be ship out in October this year. BBC reported the initial production will cost $176/laptop instead of the $100 preliminary projection when the project started.
Now that the new price of “One Laptop Per Child” notebook has been announced, the project seems to be on final stage. It also gets some upgrades underneath the OLPC itself. The previous specs shows the laptop will be powered by a 366Mhz AMD Geode CPU with 128MB RAM and 512MB of NAND flash.
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