This is the latest news about the OLPC project laptop (one laptop per child) the green light in color and have a white antenna. Version 2.0 will appear with the size of a small, so the more easily carried by children. This version is scheduled to appear in 2010. Interestingly, the keypad on the cheap notebook for children will be replaced with dual touch screen (dual-touch display). The new version will also be more energy efficient because they consume power only 1 watt, plus priced with the more affordable price, namely U.S. $ 75 - the amount claimed OLPC can be realized despite the latest model, XO, narrowly valued 200% names as' the laptop U.S. $ 100. "
With dual-display hinge, this new version can be used as a book, a laptop with a touch-screen keypad, or as a displai wider when the laptop is opened up to berposisi horizontal. "Displainya will become better and continue to improve, and this is the key to the next generation," said OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte at a launch event in the MIT Media Lab. Re-design of the OLPC is a last effort to encourage the adoption of these machines will be global. Last week, OLPC announced that the next version has the option to run the Microsoft Windows (OLPC previously only way above the operating system GNU / Linux, plus a custom interface called
Sugar, which emphasizes collaboration among children.
With Windows, OLPC hopes to increase sales to countries such as Egypt, the schools have been using Windows software.
While waiting for the laptop version of this new show, XO, which consume power from 2 to 4 watts will be sold. However, until now 600 thousand new orders received by OLPC, is very far from the 100 million that Negroponte predicted two years ago.
Sugar, which emphasizes collaboration among children.
With Windows, OLPC hopes to increase sales to countries such as Egypt, the schools have been using Windows software.
While waiting for the laptop version of this new show, XO, which consume power from 2 to 4 watts will be sold. However, until now 600 thousand new orders received by OLPC, is very far from the 100 million that Negroponte predicted two years ago.
