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OLPC scraps XO-2 dual screen laptop, moves toward ARM-based XO-1.75
Liliputing —
... Remember that dual-touchscreen concept machine that the One Laptop Per Child folks were working on? Yeah, it’s toast. In a recent interview, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte told Xconomy that the team is killing off the XO-2 project and instead focusing on an XO Laptop version 1.75. ...
OLPC scrap dual-display XO-2; single-sheet “model 3.0 slate” in works
SlashGear —
OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte has revealed that the twin-display OLPC XO-2 2.0 project has been scrapped, in favor of an updated – but cosmetically identical – revamp of the existing 1.0 XO-1 model and a new, model 3.0 that has “totally different industrial design, more like a sheet of paper”. Speaking to Xconomy, the outspoken exec also sought to redefine the initial, well-publicized aim of “the $100 laptop” in terms of total cost of ownership: $1 per child per week to buy, maintain and connect the machine. ...
OLPC shakeup: dual-screen XO-2 out, ARM-based XO 1.75 in
Engadget —
... OLPC's plans for a dual-screen XO-2 laptop / tablet always seemed a little... ambitious, and it looks like even Nicholas Negroponte himself has now realized that it may be more than the organization is able to pull off at the moment. That word comes from a ...
Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2 [Obits]
Gizmodo —
It has always been an unspoken fear—or assumption, even—that the dual-touchscreen followup to the original OLPC, the XO-2, would never come to pass. But we let the dream live! Until today: the XO-2 is officially scrapped. Almost worse than the news that we'll never see this folding, hybrid LCD/E ink budget computer in the flesh is how the news was delivered: By Nick Negroponte, in a low-profile interview with Xconomy, as if it everyone already knew: 2.0 (the XO-2) has been replaced by two things: 1) model ...
Dual-screen OLPC design binned; get ready for the OLPC tablet
CrunchGear —
... the same latte-sucking Volvo-jockeys who want the Apple Tablet also love the idea of the OLPC. Charity and all that. Buy one, give one is a great promotion, and for a $75 unit, it’s a price most can afford. Assuming they hit that price target, of which there is no guarantee. On the other hand, Microsoft is probably happy that there’s one less dual-touchscreen device to compete with the Courier.
Here’s what Negroponte had to say about the XO 3.0 in a recent interview with Xconomy:
2.0 has been replaced by two things: 1) ...
