We're pretty stoked to see that upcoming dual-screen sequel to the XO,
OLPC's promised XO-2. Until then, OLPC is sprucing up the insides of its current design with a new
VIA C7-M processor that can be clocked between 400MHz and 1GHz depending on the task at hand. Alongside the new processor the "Generation 1.5" model will sport a hot new VX855 chipset that can handle 3D graphics, HD video, and general management duties, and should be able to do it with a smaller footprint and less power consumption. The screen will likely remain the same, but might be tweaked slightly to improve brightness and efficiency, and the whole package should be built with components that will be more likely to drop in price. Developers should get the main board by May, with prototypes for testing going out in August and we suppose wide availability sometime after that.
posted Apr 18th 2009 4:11PM
The HAVE to get that thing to run Android...
Those are not the Androids they are looking for.
Yeah, but can you play Crysis on it?
Better make sure there's a Blu-ray drive if you want the poor kids to enjoy that HD video.
Dumb or ignorant, which one is it?
You, both. Him, funny.
It was a joke, lighten up. A BD drive in a computer that's supposed to cost the same price as it, that's a funny thought.
You seem to have some serious anti-blu-ray issues if you can't take a joke.
So, a touchscreen (on which they would presumably type) would make the product better how? People need to get over the fad of everything being touch-screen. Sure TS's are great for many different aspects of technology but sometimes buttons are superior. I guess teaching the children who get the version 2 laptops touch-typing is out of the question...
IMHO they need to get over the cool factor of 2 screens before they commit to manufacturing a mistake on their XO-2.
Localization. It is exceedingly expensive to manufacture localized keyboards for smaller deployments. Does that mean children should be forced to compute in English or another non-native language, ignoring their local one? With a touchscreen keyboard, key maps can easily be made for every deployment.
You missed perhaps the most important bits. 1gb of ram and 4+gb of NAND. The 256mb of RAM is probably the biggest bottleneck on the XO-1, and deployments are constantly having issues with kids filling up the 1gb NAND.
iPhone-like
How does this have anything to do with an iPhone? 3rd world country laptops? C'mon.
at least this has a physical keyboard...
I, for one, never had any problems with this concept simply because of its almost absurd level of audacity but I think that at this point, it's time to put the pencils down.
Give it a break and call "ahead of it's time" or something and try again in a few years when the situation's changed.
Or basically just blah, blah, blah listen to my wonderful voice, blah, blah blah.
I do think this was ahead of its time - and they couldn't really deliver, but with the netbook craze and the hardware coming with that, this shouldn't be an issue in the very near future. Still, based on what we've seen so far, I don't think that this is really going to change the world.
Besides, whats the point of these monstruosities when netbooks are just as cheap and far more versatile.
It' s time for Negroponte to come out with something less stale.
My MIL has one. Freaking waste of petroleum.
What is a MIL? Too many acronyms.
Mother in law you nüb
Mother in law?
"Freaking waste of petroleum"
Your MIL or the laptop?
Just a typo. He wanted to write 'My MILF'
So, is it running Linux still, or is this the crap-ware version? (thus requiring the upgraded internals just to function)
The idea and marketing of the gen 1 OLPC might have helped spur Intel down the Atom path - their classmate laptops running Celerons were only half an answer to the XO-1. No matter what happens OLPC has certainly improved the market for small general purpose computing. A lot of people commenting on Engadget don't get what the OLPC is for - thats because they live in a environment with ubiquitous power and networking. The OLPC sips power and the mesh networking allows for forms networking without the infrastructure that we are blessed with. No idea how these netbooks are actually working out in third world countries but the ideas are sound.
This company is failing hard with this laptop. They should just scrap it and raise money to buy eee pcs.
Wow, the "geniuses" that designed this thing should be shot by third world soldiers.
This thing was ahead of its time but has turned out to be a big fail. What kids want to do on the computer is play games, this one is too crappy serious game-playing.
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