Changes: $100 Laptop

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The $100 Laptop is an initiative developed by the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association, an offshoot of the MIT Media Lab (and specifically its founder Nicholas Negroponte.) The goal is to bring affordable computing to underpriveleged populations around the world, bridging the digital divide.

The laptop system uses Linux as the basis for its goal of achieving a highly customizeable system.

In August, project director's announced that the project was to be renamed the Children's Machine 1 (or CM1).

As of April 2007, the OLPC raised the price of the $100 laptop to $175 dollars. Production was still planned and began.

Operating System

Red Hat Fedora Version 6

Hardware

x86-compatible processor with 64KB each L1 I and D cache; at least 128KB L2 cache; AMD Geode LX-700@0.8W

Note

As of August 2006, the official sale price of the $100 Laptop was estimated at $140.[1]

External Links

The official $100 Laptop page
MIT laptop gets a new name just in time for field tests from Ars Technica
$100 laptop project launches 2007
Eight nations set to get $150 laptops from ZDNet (2.12.07)
'$100 laptop' cost rises to $175, for now from the Los Angeles Times (4.27.07)
The technology of OLPC's hundred dollar laptop from 37 Signals (5.21.07)
$100 laptop production begins from the BBC (7.22.07)
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 *[http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/431-the-technology-of-olpcs-hundred-dollar-laptop  ''The technology of OLPC's hundred dollar laptop''] from 37 Signals (5.21.07)
 *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6908946.stm ''$100 laptop production begins''] from the BBC (7.22.07)
+*[http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1449418602]
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