The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) team has scrapped their ambitious dual-touch screen XO-2 concept machine due to budget constraints. The folks are now busy building an XO laptop version 1.75. The first XO laptop arrived a few years ago and it sort of sparked the netbook revolution.
The first XO laptop featured an AMD Geode processor. The next version XO 1.5 had a faster VIA processor. The proposed XO 1.75 will have similar looks, but it will run on an ARM-based processor and as such won’t be able to run Windows. But that shouldn’t be an issue, as the XO laptop is designed to run on Linux.
But Negroponte and his friends, the folks behind the project, are still optimistic. In fact they are already thinking about version 3.0. The goal is for XO laptop version 3.0 to run on just 1W of power and cost $75. They expect to release the product in 2012. Sounds ambitious, right?
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