One Laptop Per Child Launch 2011
The One Laptop Per Child foundation has appear a new partership with dent maker Marvell to coact on its new innovatively-designed touch-screen book for primary academy kids in developing countries.
Moved by the project
"When we aboriginal met Nicholas, we were actual confused by his leadership," says Dai Weili, Marvell's arch operating office. "We've got the amount structure, affection adequacy and scalability to abutment his eyes for abounding years to come."
OLPC's new slate accessory will now be clearly launched at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2011, priced at beneath than $100, about two years advanced of the aboriginal absolution date plans.
The book will be alleged the XO-3, the latest abundance of the aboriginal XO-1 launched aback in 2007.
The XO-3 will afresh be advised by Yves Behar. Some of the appearance that OLPC architect Nicolas Negroponte envisioned for the new OLPC XO-3 won't be accessible for the archetypal launched in January 2011 – such as all-plastic apparatus for backbone and waterproofing.
The aboriginal XO-3 will aswell accept a 1GHz processor, not an 8GHz processor as Negroponte originally capital for the tablet.
A dispatch stone
Pixel Qi's low-power sunlight-friendly displays may aswell not be included in the 2011 adaptation of the tablet. TechRadar has contacted both OLPC and Pixel Qi for added accuracy on this.
"This is a dispatch stone," Negroponte told Forbes. "We haven't afflicted our mission ... It's all still on the alley map."
But Negroponte says that the average book aimed at next year's CES should blackout naysayers. "I hadn't advised this dispatch as an antitoxin to the criticisms, but I anticipate it will abruptness people," he says.
As for the iPad, Negroponte still thinks OLPC and Marvell can actualize a bigger machin.
"[The iPad] is lovely, but it's not a constructionist device," he says. "Ours will accept cameras and a haptic awning [vibrating in acknowledgment to touch]. It will be added open, run beam and be added of a computer instead of a borderline device."
