OLPC XO gets fully dissected -- cover your eyes, kids!

The OLPC XO may be a kid's machine at heart, but it's been caught doing some mighty grown-up deeds over at NotebookReview. Sure, we caught a teaser of this thing's innards way back when, but there's nothing that satisfies like a full frontal tear down. Click on for lots, lots more -- we promise it's all PG.

[Zeus.:God @ Jan 14th 2008 9:07PM]

Gah- its so small and insignificant. Must not- SMASH! AUGHGHGHG!!

[mr friggles @ Jan 15th 2008 12:02AM]

no point this is not the OLPC, I know. Somebody got engadget, it looks photoshopped.

Yeah, checked the reflections. Definitely photoshopped.

[pv @ Jan 14th 2008 9:23PM]

But does it blend?

[ethana2 @ Jan 14th 2008 11:16PM]

Yes it does, but not very fast. obvious answer, question--

[Tiptup300 @ Jan 14th 2008 9:28PM]

Why do people still care about these, they aren't $100 and no hand crank what other redeemable reason would you have to buy one of these?

[Zeus.:God @ Jan 14th 2008 9:45PM]

Not you, but maybe some less fortunate children who's schools don't have the money to buy expensive laptops or computers? This is a great alternative for those, as they have enough power to get stuff such as word processing and internet research done.

[Goatee Man @ Jan 14th 2008 9:51PM]

Um... Yes hand crank and no they're not for retail sale. They're for kids in underdeveloped countries. Where have you been, man?

[Goatee Man @ Jan 14th 2008 9:53PM]

And yeah, I know that you could buy them for a time, but that still doesn't make them for sale in the sense Tiptup was implying.

[waiownsyou @ Jan 14th 2008 11:51PM]

My question is: Why do African children (literally CHILDREN and not college students) even need Internet or word processing? Last thing we need is kids with more access to MySpace, porn, and email (*cough*Lottery*cough*).

[Tiptup300 @ Jan 15th 2008 7:11AM]

Yes, I realize that they are only meant for sale to small developing countries, I have read the news in the past year, but after they changed the price to like $250 or something around there, I don't see why they didnt decrease the specs even more. I'm sure they could have taken the price down some way. Also the whole crank bit was a joke.

[Oliver @ Jan 14th 2008 9:39PM]

XO

[Itchy Pajamas @ Jan 14th 2008 9:51PM]

Still waiting for mine to ship. At least now I don't have to tear mine apart.

[matt @ Jan 14th 2008 9:53PM]

wow that thing actually seems overpriced considering you can get much better specs on any e-bay laptop any day of the week. looks like an outdated pos imho.

[MRCUR @ Jan 14th 2008 9:57PM]

You apparently don't understand the point of OLPC...

[Goatee Man @ Jan 14th 2008 9:59PM]

Gah... Why is everyone convinced that this is a commercial laptop? _This is not something that meant for use by the average consumer; it is intended for underdeveloped countries, and as such, is purposely very conservative_. It's bare bones, but it will give children in third world countries the opportunity to see the world. That was its purpose - not to impress technophiles.

[matt @ Jan 14th 2008 10:15PM]

my comment was not about what it is supposed to do but more towards how overpriced it appears. I am with you on that it is not for techies like us. however consider the specs it has, it appears extremely overpriced for the specs it is showing. heck even a moderately built pda anymore has more power than these things do. again i am not bashing what it is for, i'm bashing the fact that i think they are overcharging for these things.

[thethirdmoose @ Jan 14th 2008 11:28PM]

But will it survive a sandstorm?

[Tom @ Jan 15th 2008 1:04AM]

It will stop appearing overpriced when you stop comparing a brand-new laptop that had lots of development go into it and meant for mass distribution with a single used 1996 IBM Thinkpad on eBay. I think that's where your metaphor failed.

[matt @ Jan 15th 2008 2:04AM]

actually i still disagree. just take for example asus's eepc. that thing spec wise is lightyears beyond this thing and yet only $100 more. sorry but this thing just seems overpriced. anyway i'm not comparing it to 1996 technology and prices, i'm comparing it to what we can get today in a similar package.

[IndiaTech @ Jan 14th 2008 9:57PM]

Naked OLPC. Me like it...

[Rafer @ Jan 14th 2008 10:03PM]

Kidde Porn ewwwww

[ChrisG @ Jan 14th 2008 10:36PM]

nice, but i would have probably made more sense to put the motherboard near the keyboard to reduce the weight of the screen/lid. Though having the motherboard behind the screen probably lowers heat on your lap.

[ethana2 @ Jan 14th 2008 11:17PM]

The back of the screen needs to be a heatsink with vertical fins. If putting the mainboard of the machine behind the screen is what it takes to do that, so be it.

[ChrisG @ Jan 14th 2008 11:24PM]

nice observation!

[Jern @ Jan 14th 2008 10:47PM]

Why are so many articles on here about the OLPC? Its a boring, double the target price, and for kids in developing nations... yet it gets so so much press

[Mike @ Jan 15th 2008 7:31AM]

Bear in mind that the reason the price tag was exceeded has a lot more to do with the collapse of the US dollar than anything else...

[Magallanes @ Jan 15th 2008 6:42AM]

Is still funny to heard the reasons behind OLPC. Here (a "underdeveloped country") we need trucks and tractors after all, half of your food (specially at winter time) are produced on our "poor" countries. So, it's not as simple to "help poor countries because we are good guys", it's more a symbiosis, or you could say, globalization.

A crappy notebook did nothing but spend money on a useless plan. And yes, Microsoft did (and currently do) this job several years ago, many school are sponsored by Microsoft (and University). But microsoft is evil = they do evilness.

[Kizul Emeraldfire @ Jan 15th 2008 10:56PM]

But will it play Color a Dinosaur?

[McLogic @ Jan 17th 2008 1:16PM]

Now that we have seen a full tear-down. How log will it take before people put in a USB hub and bluetooth/storage USB devices?

The XO-1 is much more interesting if it has bluetooth. It could use that to get data from my cell phone. Perhaps it could even stream music to my headset WHILE CLOSED and IN A BAG (as it does not need venting) Also, another 2-4 Gb of internal storage would help this thing a lot.

[John Lancia @ Jan 21st 2008 4:13AM]

Man, you doubters just don't get it. Its not overpriced. Its $199 plus shipping with the G1G1 programme. Prices are expected to fall as production is ramped up and Intel and other industry players start to realize that bashing a poor little non-porfit charity, trying to help dirt poor kids, is bad for their reps. It is underpowered and currently overpriced, but its rugged and has novel networking capabilities that will work wonders where they are intended to go. Not to mention the fantastic software that it comes packaged with. My eight year old daughter has had her nose buried in it since it arrived a few days ago. Its a hit with her and thats what matters. Not what a bunch of elitist snobs have to say about it while typing on their computers that a third world family would have to work several years to pay for. Get real guys, you are seriously out of touch.