Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Apr 2009 10:00 UTC, submitted by caffeine deprived
One Laptop Per Child has refreshed its XO-1 laptop hardware, dumping chips from AMD in favour of processors from Via Technologies, the VIA C7-M. "In our continued effort to maintain a low price point, OLPC is refreshing the hardware to take advantage of the latest component technologies," OLPC officials wrote. Note that we are talking about the current OLPC laptop, and not any upcoming models.
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Member since:2006-01-27
The OLPC was most effective as a hypothetical dream - combining new technology with political / economic idealism to enhance the quality of education and opportunity around the world.
But unfortunately the real world kicked OLPC's ass. Management problems, inflated pricing, competing commercial projects, mainstream markets encroaching on the niche, post-sale support failure, committed buyers backing out...
Simply, the OLPC organization over-promised and under-delivered while at the same time failing to maintain any level of technological or economic advantage over commercial products.
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2006-02-10
From the first time I heard about the OLPC project, I thought that despite its good intentions, it would end up being a project about bringing up "educated slaves" (IT low wage workers) in so called 3rd world countries like Brazil, India (which have some infrastructure in place) and not e.g. Ghana which are presently hopeless.
So, I'm not disappointed about the project's eminent failure. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.