An OLPC Christmas / OLPC Distribution in October
Holiday Wishes Come True?
Finally some confirmation from up on high! (Mary Lou Jepsen, CTO)
She mentions a possible price-tag of $350.
From the reuters article:
According to this BBC article, the production of the Children Machine is about to be ramped up to get the devices into kids hands by this coming October.
Here's Chris Blizzard going over innards and some power stuff: (courtesy BBC)
The BBC also provides a link to their 'Factfile: XO laptop' which contains a good overview of the technology that makes the Children's Machine what it is. If you scroll-down to the bottom, they have an applet demonstrating how the mesh connectivity behaves (it looks like a slightly modifed version of this one). Fun.
Although I find it a little hard to believe that we'll be able to purchase our very own OLPCs only two months after legitimate distribution starts, I am so excited for this Christmas.
She mentions a possible price-tag of $350.
From the reuters article:
As the foundation prepares for mass production of its first model, the XO, to begin in October, it is looking for ways to subsidize manufacturing of the devices so that it can get more of them into the hands of poor children, Jepsen said.
Profits from consumer sales would go for that purpose, said Jepsen.
"We're trying to get the best deal we can," she said.
She added the foundation is looking at selling the machines over the Internet and talking to companies with "a big presence on the Web," although she declined to identify any by name.
We could speculate on what laptop-conveyance they'll go with, waxing fantastical, but the reality is probably not going to be that earth-shaking; they'll find a tigerdirect-like distributor, or something.
Saying that, I'm not ruling out GoogleDelivery, direct from the hands of Al Gore as he travels cross-country at the head of a fleet of OLPC-laden GoogleVans.
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According to this BBC article, the production of the Children Machine is about to be ramped up to get the devices into kids hands by this coming October.
Here's Chris Blizzard going over innards and some power stuff: (courtesy BBC)
The BBC also provides a link to their 'Factfile: XO laptop' which contains a good overview of the technology that makes the Children's Machine what it is. If you scroll-down to the bottom, they have an applet demonstrating how the mesh connectivity behaves (it looks like a slightly modifed version of this one). Fun.
Although I find it a little hard to believe that we'll be able to purchase our very own OLPCs only two months after legitimate distribution starts, I am so excited for this Christmas.
1 comment:
As a poor child, I found myself befriending kids I would otherwise toss stones at just because they had home computers. This next generation will not have to suffer such horrors.
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