Photos: The new-look $100 laptop

The OLPC transformation

By Nick Heath, 21 May 2008 16:42

A low cost PC to bring computing to children in the developing world has been reborn as an ultra low-cost dual touchscreen computer.

The new One Laptop per Child (OLPC) machine - the XO-2 - is one large touch display that can be transformed into a hinged laptop with a touch keyboard, an electronic book or two-screen display.

When it goes on sale in 2010 the XO-2's price is expected to fall to just $75, taking it below the original $100 price target set by OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte.

The first generation XO laptop went into production in early November 2007, and has sold about 600,000 units across the world, providing computer access to hundreds of thousands of children in the developing world.

Photo credit: OLPC

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  1. 1. Gladkov Serge

    I want to buy it (XO-1 & XO-2)!!!
    is it impossible?

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