Under the hood of the $100 laptop
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| Nevertheless, the One Laptop Per Child Project is facing serious competition
| from at least two directions.
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| "The first front is from Intel, which has a classmate PC project. It is
| significantly more expensive, estimated at $400," says Ken Fisher from Ars
| Technica, a PC enthusiasts website.
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| "Also Microsoft has announced that it is selling a reduced rate Windows and
| Office package for $3 in certain countries."
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| "So, in terms of the project not being able to worry about money I think that
| is a very naive point of view."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6962035.stm
Related:
OLPC team shows off UI design
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| Overall, the demonstration was impressive from a design standpoint, although
| the educational aspects and project criticisms were basically glossed over.
| There are still a few remaining UI elements that seemed overly complicated,
| such as a color picker in the drawing activity with hue and saturation
| controls, but on a purely technical level the XO looked very easy to use, and
| its collaboration features were extremely impressive.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070822-olpc-team-shows-off-ui-design.html
Child's play: Sneaking a peek at the OLPC OS
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| The first One Laptop Per Child hardware devices are still months
| from deployment, but you can sneak a peek at their Sugar desktop
| environment and bundled applications by running an OS image under
| an emulator.
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http://applications.linux.com/applications/06/11/30/206212.shtml?tid=26
(Video) OLPC Interface Walkthrough
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| Previously known as the $100 laptop, the OLPC boasts a 500mhz
| Processor, Linux OS, 1GB Memory, and a Two-Mode Display (Color and B&W).
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http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/video-olpc-interface-walkthrough
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