http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/ Engadget Comments for OLPC $100 laptop shown in final form? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Feb 18th 2008 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 4th 2006 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 4th 2006 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/
It has a kind of 1960's appliance of the future look to it. Unfortunately.]]>Mar 4th 2006 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 4th 2006 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Perhaps you are not familiar with the project or who these laptops are aimed for, that being the worlds poorest of poor who can't exactly afford a new MacBook Pro but would greatly benefit from a computer.
Jackass.]]>Mar 4th 2006 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/
The hand-crank power supply thingie, ugly as it was on the prototype, makes some sense if you consider they're targeting developing world application, and in many cases the little darlings won't be able to just plug in a brick when they get home from school.

/SH]]>Mar 4th 2006 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 4th 2006 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 4th 2006 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 4th 2006 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/
That is of course that this notebook thing ever becomes a reality. ]]>Mar 4th 2006 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/rim-ntp-settle-for-612-million-finally/

I think the way you folks kept up on all of the RIM/NTP issue was both informative and hilarious. ]]>Mar 4th 2006 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 4th 2006 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/
It's lucky the MIT Media Lab dropped him when they did and got back moving toward some form of reality.]]>Mar 4th 2006 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 4th 2006 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/--
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Actually that is exactly the idea. One of the biggest problems the project is facing is the fact that the people who are receiving this will be ready to sell it to richer people, for money, just like it often happened with Tsunami aid. So the project hopes to make it sort of a 'social stigma' to own one, at least if you are an adult. If you understand 3rd world societies, this actually is one idea that might work.

About the hand crank, that might not be in the final version. At least for the first generation of notebooks.

The specs have been finalized actually, for the first gen.
Oh, and also there are no plans what so ever right now to make a commercial model.
]]>Mar 4th 2006 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/
A couple of things they might choose to buy before deciding to go browse Wikipedia? Clean water, maybe a light. I shouldn't choose for them, though, because they know better than I do what they need. Which is precisely the reason "solutions" like this don't change anything. But they do make people feel good about themselves and their intentions, so that's a plus.]]>Mar 4th 2006 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 4th 2006 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Can it actually do something or is it just like those kiddy toy thingies for a 2 year old ]]>Mar 4th 2006 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 4th 2006 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 4th 2006 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/
Please inform yourself of the specifics of a project before posting your condemnation of it.

The point of the 100$ laptop is to provide an easy, reusable alternative to textbooks. Textbooks are incredibly expensive and simply not practical in developing nations.

These laptops won't be purchased by the families, or the students themselves. They are in fact being given to the students by the governments. The Chinese government has vowed to put a laptop in every child's hands.

The availability of a form of written/visual learning material to students in developing nations will make a HUGE difference, and to think otherwise is sheer ignorance. Not everyone is able to spend the $200+ a semester for textbooks. Our investment in our children and their education is an investment well made.

Please take your cynical attitude elsewhere.]]>Mar 4th 2006 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 4th 2006 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 4th 2006 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 4th 2006 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 4th 2006 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/
wow, your really stupid.

This isn't built for American markets! Its built for 3rd world country schools and kids, who cannot afford iBooks. Philanthropists could buy 7 of these for the same price of an iBook.

insensitive twat.

Specs: 500mhz processor, 4 usb, handcrank, 1gb memory cheap. http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/28/negroponte-details-specs-on-planned-100-laptop/]]>Dec 28th 2006 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Optimism aside, if this turns into a three ring circus with the media and the technicians and whatnot, it'll devalue the entire goal of the project and debase us as a species.]]>Mar 4th 2006 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 4th 2006 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/If kids and/or parents need to take a turn cranking power for the Wi-Max transmitter - so be it. There was a time here in America when that wouldn't have been an immediate deal-breaker for the chance to advance education, and start a nation on the path to actually being competetive, or at least involved, in the new global economy. I'm a pretty lazy 21 year old - just a kid myself - and the idea that that may be gone from our culture scares me. This OLPC project is something we can do... it doesn't adddress the whole problem, but it certainly addresses a piece of it. Give these kids access to the world information community now, and I think we'll be surprised by how many of thier own problems, and maybe ours, they can solve as they come of age.]]>Mar 4th 2006 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/
Have you ever SEEN the "Poorest of the Poor"? A nurse I know does work down in Haiti and it's BAD there. If you have a tin roof, you're rich. The schools don't have PAPER. They need running water and housing before we worry about getting them iPods and Plasma TVs.]]>Mar 4th 2006 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/
Yes they are, to stop anyone stealing them and selling them on a gray market.]]>Mar 4th 2006 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=107402065&size=o
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=107402101&size=o
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=107402105&size=o]]>Mar 4th 2006 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 4th 2006 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/kinda like those socialist snobs who use words
like "myopia".
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If the whole point is to make it easy for kids to get school textbooks and thus become educated, then this will only help in nations where children can read and where there are functioning school systems. The really poor nations will have no benefit.

Besides, if they are selling them to governments, why can't these governments buy their children textbooks? I'm sure if there was a need, cheap textbooks could be printed.

I'd be glad if someone would prove me wrong, because right now this looks like a little bit of a waste.

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a textbook (math and literature)if taken care of properly can last 10 years easily.

do you think these fragile toys will be around in 10 years?

wasted money.]]>Mar 5th 2006 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 5th 2006 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 5th 2006 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 5th 2006 3:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/
That's what I think could push sales (and I hate cliches) "over-the-top."]]>Mar 5th 2006 5:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/
FULLY agree!
For each 200$ OLPC sold, one OLPC is shipped to a third-world country - my exact thought since I first heard about this project a few months ago.

"Get one, give one"]]>Mar 5th 2006 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/Mar 5th 2006 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/04/olpc-100-laptop-shown-in-final-form/
a. How many of the millions of children in developing countries know good english to be able to even utilise these laptops.

b. how many of the teachers in the schools are tech-savvy enough to be able to help the students with the laptops?

c. who is going to teach the teachers in the laptop based instruction? who is going to create the contents and curriculums suitable for use through these laptops. who is going to maintan/repair these laptops. An most importantly who is going to bear the costs for the above-mentioned activities? MIT? The govt of the countries buying these laptops? or the UN?!]]>Mar 5th 2006 7:00AM