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Filed under 'olpc'
➠ September 24, 2007
One Laptop Per Child -- XO Giving
OLPC will be running a buy-one-donate-one scheme for the XO laptop: Pay $399 and you’ll get a laptop for yourself and pay to send another to the developing world.
➠ August 10, 2007
One Laptop Per Child, Reviewed by 12-Year-Old
Well-written (for a 12-year-old) review of the OLPC XO laptop. The main concern about how slow it is seems moot to me for the target audience for whom this is their first computer: I accepted three-minute loading times on my ZX Spectrum at that age. (And is this a vindication of the original Speccy’s rubber keyboard?)
➠ March 17, 2007
A gathering of OLPCs
Several prototypes from the One Laptop Per Child program were brought along for geeks to play with. While I'm not going to give up my MacBook any time soon, they are beautifully designed for what they're needed to do.
OLPCs bring joy
Alan Taylor with a OLPC laptop.
OLPC Draws the Crowds
SJ Klein of OneLaptopPerChild draws a big crowd during an impromptu demonstration over afternoon break.
➠ January 10, 2007
BBC NEWS | Public can purchase $100 laptop
Fantastic if it pans out — The great unwashed will be allowed to buy (on eBay?!) an OLPC laptop, so long as they simultaneously pay for a second one to be shipping to the developing world. Sign me up!
➠ June 2, 2006
Negroponte's now $130 PC due in April 2007
Nigeria is reportedly highly interested in the $100 laptop. Won’t it feel good when you know that the “Your relative Larry Begbie has died” spams were produced on one?
About This Site
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.