OLPC Project Guide to 2012

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OLPC or One Laptop Per Child is a foundation whose primary mission is to provide every child a computer in the world with Negroponte at the head of the organization. Well, the expectations of the foundation until 2012 are:

  • During January 2010 will see the XO version 1.5 with the same form factor than the current model but replacing one VIA AMD thereby get a speed increase of up to 2 times, 4 times faster than DRAM and the appearance up to 4 times faster in Flash memory. Its price is about $ 200.
  • One year later XO 1.75 version will appear in the same design of touch screen of 8.9 inches, but this time based on an ARM processor thereby get a reduction of energy consumption. Its price is $ 150.
  • Finally, in 2012 (yes that year as lethal) would appear XO version 3.0, with a design radically different from today and becoming a kind of tablet without physical keyboard and much more portable than the current model type netbook. The best would probably its price: $ 100.

Screen shot OLPC Project Guide to 2012

For now, the OLPC initiative has not been as successful than expected and we do not believe that this Roadmap is carried out much less, with estimated prices, although the latter XO 3.0 has a great pint.