July 23rd, 2007
“$100″ Laptop Production Ramps Up
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
First proposed in 2002, despite seeing its cost rise to $176 and its uses expand to, oh, porn, the OLPC (AKA the XO-1) is ready for mass production.
Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines. Source: BBC News
We Say: Laptops should be ready to surf for porn, er, I mean, reach the hands of children in developing countries 
, by October of this year. This is, however, one month later than originally planned. BTW, if you didn’t know, the XO-1 will be produced in Taiwan by Quanta, the world’s largest laptop manufacturer … and many of you have likely used Quanta hardware.
Wayan says:
I’ll quite enjoy looking at many different images this Christmas on my very own XO. OLPC just announced they will have retail sales by the end of this year: http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/usa/olpc_xo_sales_christmas_buy.html
July 24th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
» OLPC Foundation May Launch $350 Commercial Laptop by Christmas » Blog Archive Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech says:
[…] On the same day they announced that mass production of the XO-1 was starting, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation indicated that they were considering launching a commercial version, at twice the cost, or approximately $350, by Christmas. The idea would be to subsidize the costs of the units for developing countries with profits from the sales of the commercial version. Its entry to the commercial market would be a challenge to traditional PC industry companies. “The PC industry will be watching this very closely,” said Roger Kay, an analyst with PC market researcher Endpoint Technologies Associates Inc. […]
September 24th, 2007 at 7:07 am
OLPC Foundation May Launch $350 Commercial Laptop by Christmas | Etixet Tag Cloud Archive 10.000 Web Site Feed says:
[…] On the same day they announced that mass production of the XO-1 was starting, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation indicated that they were considering launching a commercial version, at twice the cost, or approximately $350, by Christmas. The idea would be to subsidize the costs of the units for developing countries with profits from the sales of the commercial version. Its entry to the commercial market would be a challenge to traditional PC industry companies. “The PC industry will be watching this very closely,” said Roger Kay, an analyst with PC market researcher Endpoint Technologies Associates Inc. […]
January 7th, 2008 at 1:30 pm