OLPC For Third World Service
A great technologist Nicholas Negroponte’s heart is sore for those children in Australia whose getting access to the computer world is just a chimerical dream. For bringing them the digital divide he has come to the idea to produce a special laptop more tough and cheaper. That was the reason why OLPC XO-1 has issued and distributed five hundred thousand laptops of different colour mainly through South and Central America.
The properties of the new laptop are as follow: a tiny 433MHz AMD Geode processor, 256MB of memory and 1GB of flash storage, with the XO sound which is like that of a smart phone. It runs Fedora Linux with a graphical called Sugar, and it loads applications and run at a very low speed.
Due to the OLPC program having come to Australia school pupils are able to work with digital smarts as the laptops are being introduced into schools by the Northern Territory Education Department.
The OLPC program lets schoolchildren get one free as a gift, if USD 399 are donated. The unit is quite robust, that is why there are no moving parts and one can operate and repair it in the open air. It has three USB ports, stereo speakers and microphone, audio jacks, a VGA camera, a waterproof membrane keyboard and a LCD screen that is quite perfect to be read in bright sunlight. Its case is made of firm plastic 2 mm thick and a pair of wireless antennae latches. The device is portable, it has the neat built-in handle as well.
For the offered price the XO is a real treasure for its owners.
Article source: australianit.news.com.au