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RM to launch Asus Eee as £169 "MiniBook"
New sub-laptop aimed at school kids 9 October 2007 16:38 GMTEducational IT provider Research Machines, now apparently so down wid it they prefer to be referred to as just "RM", will launch Asus' tiny Eee PC in the UK in November.
The diminutive laptop, announced back in the summer as an educational aid ("easy to learn,... -
OLPC sells XO laptop to developed countires
Buy 1 Give 1 program launches 24 September 2007 11:41 GMTOne Laptop Per Child has announced that it will be selling its $100 (actual price $188) laptop to users in developed countries keen to use the laptop.
Customers looking to get the laptop will be able to do so from 12 November as part of the company's Give 1... -
OLPC laptop price rises again to $188
Nearly double original projected cost 17 September 2007 9:31 GMTReuters reports that the One Laptop Per Child Foundation has hiked prices to $188 per device.
The nonprofit group has been working on the OLPC project - to provide kids in developing countries with viable, affordable and portable computing solution - has been... -
Lenovo launches $199 PCs for rural China
And a $1000 Power Rangers effort for rich kids in India 7 August 2007 14:08 GMTChinese manufacturer Lenovo, known in the UK as the company who bought the Thinkpad marque from IBM, has announced an affordable PC for China.
Lenovo is to sell low-cost PCs targeting the country's rural market and is said to be marketing the systems to parents... -
OLPC announces mass production of XO laptop
Improvements made to final Beta-4 model 23 July 2007 16:26 GMTOLPC has announced it has authorised mass production of the XO laptop, based on the release of the final Beta-4 engineering model.
OLPC’s XO B4 laptops claim to be among the most durable and innovative laptop computers ever designed and are designed for use... -
Intel and MIT bury differences and join forces over One Laptop Per Child
Best of friends now... 13 July 2007 17:45 GMTIntel and MIT have put aside their differences it seems, and announced today that the two companies will after all work together on the One Laptop Per Child project.
Although the $100 laptop features an AMD process, under the agreement, Intel and OLPC said they... -
Asus announces 100 quid lappie for the poor
Let them play Quake 5 June 2007 15:05 GMTAnother Computex announcement from today comes in the form of Asus' "shock" announcement of an ultra low cost, ultra mobile laptop.
The result of an Asus/Intel team up, the "Eee PC" will cost as little as $199.
The "Eee" apparently stands for... -
Inexpensive laptop project reversed
Project to reduce price of laptops to developing nations goes to US first 27 April 2007 9:47 GMTThe concept that £50 laptops were to become available to developing nations to help the world's poorest children was perhaps too good to be true.
The non profit "One Laptop per Child" project has said that it will be using America to sell its cheap laptops and... -
CES 2007: $100 laptop project wants to sell the device to consumers
One for you, and one for a child in a developing country 10 January 2007 12:02 GMTThe One Laptop Per Child organisation wants to sell you one of its “$100” laptops – but you'll have to buy two of them.
One you'll get to keep; the other will go to a child in the developing world. The organisers hope to put each buyer in touch with the child... -
One Laptop Per Child project expects a summer launch
Negroponte hits the headlines again 2 January 2007 11:22 GMTNicholas Negroponte is drumming up more media hype about his One Laptop Per Child project, saying that the machines could reach users in developing countries by July.
Brazil, Argentine, Uruguay, Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan and Thailand have all ordered units, and... -
One Laptop Per Child wants hackers to break the $100 computer
Project spokesman wants to close security loopholes 4 October 2006 15:17 GMTAt the ToorCon convention in California, a representative from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project encouraged hackers to break the new computers to ultimately make them safer.
Ivan Kristic said that the OLPC will present some “very scary” security problems... -
One Laptop Per Child announces 4 million pre-orders
Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina and Thailand have all said yes 1 August 2006 13:03 GMTThe $100 laptop project, One Laptop Per Child, is claiming that four developing countries have ordered 4 million laptops (one million each).
A spokesperson for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) programme revealed that Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina and Thailand have... -
$100 PC goes up in price to $130
Chairman of the One Laptop per Child estimates price will be at $130 until demand lowers price 2 June 2006 11:36 GMTNicholas Negroponte, the Chairman of the One Laptop per Child project now expects to sell the laptop for $130 to governments world-wide in April 2007.
The special display that can be viewed in sunlight won't be ready until August or September and the proceedings... -
Images of the $100 MIT laptop released
They're colourful and robust, but will we ever see the production version? 24 May 2006 16:04 GMTPocket lint brought you pictures of MIT's hand-cranked laptop last November (here).
Now three more laptop protypes in a rainbow of colours have been revealed at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting.
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Gates rubbishes MIT laptop
“Geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you’re not sitting there cranking the thing while you’re trying to type” 18 March 2006 9:34 GMTBill Gates has rubbished the MIT $100 laptop computer developed for third world countries.
“The last thing you want to do for a shared-use computer is have it be something without a disk ... and with a tiny little screen”, Gates said at the Microsoft Government... -
MIT unveils $100 laptop to the world - PLUS IMAGES
It is cheap, it is green and they want to make millions of them 17 November 2005 10:45 GMTMIT has unveiled its $100 hand-cranked laptop computer to the United Nations technology summit in Tunisia and said that it hopes to make millions of the devices to give to the poorest people in the world.
The lime-green machines, which are about the size of a... -
MIT $100 laptop snubs Apple OS X
It might be free but it is not open source enough for MIT 16 November 2005 10:46 GMTMIT Media Lab, the makers of the $100 laptop for the developing world has turned down an offer from Apple to supply the Mac OS X operating system because it isn't an open source system.
According to the Wall Street Journal Steve Jobs, Apple's Chief Executive,... -
MIT invent $100 laptop for world's poor
Cheap laptop hopes to stop a digital divide from forming 30 September 2005 11:48 GMTEngineers at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology have announced plans to deliver a laptop for under $100 that will ensure the world's poor don't end up on the wrong side of a digital divide.
Speaking at MIT's ongoing Emerging Technologies Conference, Nicholas...
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