Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2 [Obits]

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gizmodo.com - 11/4/2009

Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2 [Obits]

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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 ...

liliputing.com - 11/3/2009

OLPC scraps XO-2 dual screen laptop, moves toward ARM-based XO-1.75

— liliputing.com — 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 ... (more) OLPC scraps XO-2 dual screen laptop, moves toward ...

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slashgear.com - 11/4/2009

OLPC scrap dual-display XO-2; single-sheet “model 3.0 slate” in works

— slashgear.com — 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 ... (more) OLPC scrap dual-display XO-2; single-sheet “model 3.0 ...

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