The folks at OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) has announced that they will use the Pixel Qi 3qi displays on their upcoming XO laptops. Pixel Qi is founded by Mary Lou Jepsen who is one of the designers of the original XO laptop. The Pixel Qi 3qi displays are highly power efficient and can switch [...]
Intel has been churning our Classmate PC Designs since early 2008. These netbooks are durable and relatively low cost making them ideal for use in classroom settings. In fact, the Intel Classmate PCs are a response to the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) XO laptop. The earliest Classmate models weren’t very impressive, but over the [...]
The OLPC XO 1.5 laptop has hit the FCC. The XO 1.5 is basically an updated version of the original XO laptop. The new model sports a relatively faster VIA C7-M processor. The previous model had an AMD Geode processor. FCC documents reveal that the laptop supports Wi-Fi 802.11b/g. other features include 1GB of RAM [...]
Remember Cherrypal Africa, that $99 netbook which made headlines a few weeks ago? Well, the machine is now available for purchase worldwide through the Cherrypal website. The Cherrypal Africa is a severely underpowered netbook running on a 400MHz processor with 256GB of RAM. As you can probably guess, this netbook is no speed demon. Its [...]
