Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:53:40 -0800
For a very limited time the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) organization is offering the public an opportunity to purchase one of their
new innovative XO laptops for personal use. http://www.laptopgiving.org
If you have not heard about the OLPC program, you should check it out at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child
The LaptopGiving offer is quite interesting. You donate $400 and you will receive one of the XO laptops for your personal use and
one XO laptop will be donated to a needy child somewhere in the world. Of the $400.00, $200.00 is considered a tax deductible
charitable contribution and the other $200.00 is considered a purchase and is not tax deductible. In addition T-Mobile is offering
all participants 1 free year of their HotSpot Internet access valued at $350.00.
This program is only running until 12-31-2007 so if you are interested you should jump on it before it ends or the supply is
exhausted.
-Kevin
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Kevin D. Burney, PMP
IT Director
COIS Mailcode-1516
2105 Bancroft Way - 2nd floor
Berkeley, CA 94720-1516
(510) 827-8476
<mailto:kburney_at_berkeley.edu> kburney_at_berkeley.edu
CHOPS:
<http://helpdesk.chance.berkeley.edu/helpdesk> http://helpdesk.chance.berkeley.edu/helpdesk
website:
<http://cois.berkeley.edu/> http://cois.berkeley.edu
Quick Facts and Specs for the OLPC XO
Find below the most important facts and specs for the OLPC XO:
Hardware
The 100$ notebook (current model: OLPC XO-1) is produced by Quanta Computers, who has a 33% market share of laptops world-wide. It
contains an AMD LX-Geode CPU at 700 MHz and 256 MB of RAM. There is no hard disk, but a 1 GB flash memory. A dual-mode SVGA LCD
screen (Monochrome and Color mode) helps saving power. Built-in wireless network interface and color camera.
Software
The software of the OLPC is open source, the operating system is Fedora Core, the graphical user interface is called Sugar. A
special version of Firefox is used as web browser, the word processor is Abiword. E-Mail is sent and received through GMail.
LinuxBIOS is stored on an 1 MB flash ROM.
History and Goal
OLPC (originally a group at the Media Lab of MIT, now an independent organization) proposed to design a low cost laptop intended for
use by children in developing nations. The laptop is poised to empower and educate children through the use of technology, and
connect the world's next generation of thinkers.
Timeline
The first prototypes of the XO laptops have been shipped by the end of 2006. In February 2007, a pilot with over thousand machines
has been started. The first large-scale rollout is planned for November 2007.
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