Tuesday, 31 January 2012

OLPC XO-1

The XO-1, ahead accepted as the $100 Laptop,2 Children's Machine,3 and 2B1,4 is an bargain subnotebook computer advised to be broadcast to accouchement in developing countries about the world,5 to accommodate them with admission to knowledge, and opportunities to "explore, agreement and accurate themselves" (constructionist learning).6 The laptop is developed by the One Laptop per Adolescent (OLPC) non-profit, 501(c)(3) alignment and bogus by Quanta Computer.

The subnotebooks are advised for auction to government-education systems which again accord anniversary primary academy adolescent their own laptop. Pricing was set to alpha at $188 in 2006, with a declared ambition to ability the $100 mark in 2008 and the 50-dollar mark by 2010.7 When offered for auction in the Accord One, Get One campaigns of Q4 2006 and Q4 2007, the laptop was awash at $199.8

These rugged, low-power computers use beam anamnesis instead of a harder drive, and appear with a administration of Linux acquired from Red Hat's Fedora as their pre-installed operating system.9 Mobile ad-hoc networking via 802.11s WiFi cobweb networking agreement is acclimated to acquiesce abounding machines to allotment Internet admission as continued as at atomic one of them can see and affix to a router or added admission point.

The XO-1 is aswell nicknamed ceibalita in Uruguay afterwards the Ceibal project

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