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The news of the week must surely be that Intel, that giant of processors, has pulled out from the One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC).
There is not much information out about why, but it seems like Intel were being pressurised into stopping their own, alternative projects which they were unhappy about. or at least that is how Intel tells it.
Is this significant?
Well, yes, given that Intel dominate the current laptop market, though early versions of XO, the mean, green, OLPC machine were not using an Intel chip anyway, so this may not be a problem in the short term.
Still - it is one step backwards for joint working and co-development.
If you didn't already know, OLPC is the amazing group of people championing super-green, ruggedized, cheap laptops for learning. (See the BBC's technology factfile for the low down)
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Intel pulls out of OLPC !!
The news of the week must surely be that Intel, that giant of processors, has pulled out from the One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC).
There is not much information out about why, but it seems like Intel were being pressurised into stopping their own, alternative projects which they were unhappy about. or at least that is how Intel tells it.
Is this significant?
Well, yes, given that Intel dominate the current laptop market, though early versions of XO, the mean, green, OLPC machine were not using an Intel chip anyway, so this may not be a problem in the short term.
Still - it is one step backwards for joint working and co-development.
If you didn't already know, OLPC is the amazing group of people championing super-green, ruggedized, cheap laptops for learning. (See the BBC's technology factfile for the low down)
Geoff2008 (the new improved model)
- X0 2 To Have A Touch Screen!
It looks possible that the next generation OLPC might have the touch screen we were wishing for! Some of the early ideas and mockups are up on the OLPC wiki site and the form factor looks superb. Is this a good idea? Of course! OLPC walk a delicate tightrope...
- Is Classmate Pc The King Of Touch?
Something we love about the latest Classmate PC is the addition of a touchscreen. One of the strongest "form" messages we get back from the various m-learning trials we run, is the appreciation of "touch" as an interface. That and...
- Mobile Learning Across The Commonwealth
The m-learning team were very excited to present our mobile learning work at the Fifth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning This is held every two years, and has grown to become one of the world’s leading conferences on learning and global development...
- The Olpc (x0) Does Windows!
Shocking news from New York Times is that the passionately open-source team behind the hundred dollar laptop have done a deal with Microsoft, so that the X0 laptop can run Windows as well as Linux. After-shocks are flowing throughout the community,...
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