OLPC XO-2

[jigsaw99]

aw touch screen keyboard is hard to teach kids

[seiferis2006]

I really don't get this... I'm 23 now and I used a Pentium 75MHz PC with 64MB RAM, no CD drive, running Windows 98SE all the way until 5-6 years ago, and guess what? I'm a software engineer...

My point? Instead of developping this cheap laptops for third world countries, they could just re-use older computers which can not only do the job well (Because they worked for me.) They're also cheaper, and clearly better for the environment as nothing has to be produced.

This is stupid.

[MrD3VIL2010]

@seiferis2006 troll.

[DpEpsilon]

@MrD3VIL2010 Whoops, didn't see that :P

[seiferis2006]

@MrD3VIL2010 Actually, no.

[DpEpsilon]

@seiferis2006 The attempt here is to get something portable, accessible, inexpensive, power efficient and with a good wireless range. Your old Pentium 1 box wouldn't be very power effective and probably wouldn't fit the needs of these children. I agree that these computers shouldn't be wasted (they are useful for interested children to learn coding skills in areas including networking), but these laptops, IMO, are the most suitable thing for these children; although I liked the original better.

[Rhosnesni]

Kids in the future won't know how lucky they are...

I can imagine myself telling my son that we didn't have those fancy hoverboards, all we had was a playstation.. that's it! and a car for the each of us!! and an I-pad, that was it! you don't know you're born son...

[vipernajem]

Vaporware.

[Echofromsomewere1]

bad design! The rich people are going to buy them from third world people.

[schmidtbag]

@Echofromsomewere1

how does rich people buying it make it a bad design? and it doesn't take a rich person to buy from a 3rd world country, in fact, rich people typically buy higher quality things that ARENT made in 3rd world countries.

[fielmaso]

yeah thats the futur

[armeti10]

haaa yo quiero que llegen de una vez a mi colegio pero nooooo llegara el 2012 ¬¬

[SIMPLYME100]

I wish netbooks would go back to having little kids prices

[DeimosSaturn]

I have a feeling this organization developing the OLPC is going to be bought out by Macintosh or Microsoft or Sony or some other developer and they will bump the price to 200 dollars so no one in the third world could afford it thus intentionally retarding the overall progress of our species. It's simply too dangerous to people in power for every man, woman, and child on the planet to have access to the ww.

[KzrrainzYes]

@DeimosSaturn That would never happen.

[barrybob32]

@DeimosSaturn most likely apple, they overprice everything

[bioemerl]

i can see this company becoming the next great laptop designers....

[DearsRenRen]

Ha!!! now eweryone uses ideas from Nintendo DS :)))

DS rules!!!

[bobolopop]

DS? Like what? I really hope you are not referring to the hinged touch screen, this has been implemented years before the DS was released.

[DearsRenRen]

Yeah right!!!!

maby touch screen but not the whole idea.

[OldTimeyJunk]

$20??? Thats £10's in the UK - I'm getting one (And, of course, giving one!)

[audiotrax2000]

This is the coolest, most functional design I've ever seen for any notebook. Is it just a PhotoShop mockup? It's always the same pictures, and never any actual video. Is it real yet? Has anyone actually seen one working?

[OldTimeyJunk]

its the real thing

[SupaPoopaScoopa]

@OldTimeyJunk Seeing is believing, in this case when i see it move I'll believe it exists.

Artist will lap this up

[OldTimeyJunk]

yeah - i suppose it will look a tiny bit different - eg: USB Ports!! AS you can tell by the images they are all the same - the kid is not touching anything really

[4000subs]

@audiotrax2000

its very real my friend got 1 and brought it to school and started using it infact 2 of my friends have them

[Gmann6666]

how much r they?

[Blacklemon67]

100$ ithink

[kalsikum]

@Blacklemon67 i want one! it looks like an ipad or somthing but 300 bucks cheaper

[knottsknocks]

@audiotrax2000 They cant show it for production reasons.

[cobrachoppergirl]

how many people in america are on foodstamps?

yeah...

[lnitialDrift]

wow, this OLPC XO-2 is way better than my labtop & my notebook.... i think i will going to get 1

[lara336]

wow. the first dual screen laptop is a laptop for kids in developing countries. These ppl need to realize that any child in a developing country would be THRILLED with the original olpc and know that they have a real laptop not just a chinese pop station.

[commandersprocket]

the cost of the original has fallen to about $118. The cost of this will be $75. This is smaller (more portable), with the same amount of screen real estate.

[rockwizclown]

@lara336 so? what makes u think privileged kids and adults need it anymore? And for what? to check their facebooks and twitter accounts?! The PCs they make will actually be used to teach and learn. Give others a chance bitch.

[uuu71]

great!

[pwnORdie]

Imagine trying to manage bios with that shit ROFL!!!

[lkymky]

actually pretty easy

but u need a dev key

[imafurryhusky]

fuck yeah 2010 here i come....

[therianet]

75$ dual touchscreen ? where is a 100$ one ?!

is it some kind of reverse logic, doe it mean XO2 will cost 300$ and minimum buy is 3 ? just bullshit

[zigo0000]

When will they get out?

Can you buy one in America?

[ANZO89]

they will come out in 2010 , and yes you will be able to buy one olpc in america, in any country of america, canada, mexico, argentina, brazil, uruguay, chile, bolivia, paraguay, ecuador, colombia, venezuela, peru, panama and a lot more countries still remaining that are located in america. oh, i almost forgot to include USA, (that was sarcasm). you know why i did this? cause i hate U.S people when they refer to america as the usa instead of saying north america, like if you were the only ones.

[supermaninhevin]

Yeah, okay, whatever you say. But do you know when in 2010?

[BryanBeatsYouAll]

this is so far away into the future!

DON'T get your hopes up people!!

[spacerokks]

This is not that far into the future. They are planning to release it later in 2010.

[iugamarian]

Well if it will have software bugs... a lot of resets will be required.

[jasonthe2]

how does that make it different from any other computer? it will be running on linux - it should be plenty stable.

[iugamarian]

Linux is really not very well when you take a Matlab 2004 directory (81000 files) and you give a

chown -R user Matlab

or something similar. It locks up for 1 minute on a normal computer, but what about a more slower computer :(

And if you do a recursive chown from gnome or other graphical enviroment, it lasts hours !

[forelelyon]

you have to realze that olpc are specially designed for educating children in 3rd world countries. its not designed for power. its a learning device.

[hossrex]

Iugamarian: You're criticism is valid when considering standard Linux which is expecting to be run on a contemporary hardware box. However, as I'm sure you know, Linux has been around for a long time, and many distributions of Linux are very capable of running on older machines.

This is just a new "old" machine.

The only real problem with Linux is that archaic command line BS. Sure it's better if you're a computer expert, but it's prohibitive for people who just want a computer that works.

[Arkaniad]

cat /etc/debian_version > ~/cow.txt

Angry yet? Cuz its not hard.

[hossrex]

It always cracks me up when people with a background in computers throw out glib comments explaining how simple they are to use, without ever giving yourself enough credit to realize that maybe it's your experience which makes it simple, and not the nature of the interface which makes it simple.

Angry yet?

[200609]

I'm pretty sure they won't be using Matlab on an OLPC.

[nopepsicoke]

advanced we are-yoda

[89artista]

a nintendo ds ??

[StowKellys]

It says in the paper and other sites it will be $75

[deltafreelancer]

Actually, Apple just patented a similar but better concept than this one.

[ANZO89]

yeah? well tell me which one?

[occocooccoco]

yeah, what it exactly would that be?

[zippzom]

It's in the same place as why apple computers cost $400 more than PCs with the exact same hardware

[BollyHD]

i highly highly doubt that they could manufacture that for under $20, considering it still requires the same internal components as the current olpc, plus a full touch screen.

[ortlikasealion]

"...anticipate them costing let's say $20 each is not out of the question." Remember he said that about the XO-1 being $100 when it turns out it's been running at $200 each for 2 straight years. I do believe the education goal is a good one, but this man's "ball park" range for cost in reality is ALL OVER THE MAP. He's visionary and a spectacular fundraiser. Can sell ice to eskimos because he believes they need it. Research WISELY and go in like a casino; only bet what you can afford to lose.

[ThatRunescaper]

i would totally give one get one if its like this!

[ComingofAgeBBC3]

This is a good move, i hate to say it but most people wouldn't move for a laptop that looked like the XO-1 even if it did help children. But now that they've come up with a good looking and VERY functional laptop I reakon they'll do much better.

I know I'll be buying into it come 2010!

[MUERTOLOCO]

i want one...

[drgnxxx]

I want one.

[Lukaz1989]

i swear to god in 6 months this will be the NEW Apple Macbook

[spectrelives]

Move over Apple! These guys are the new design gods.

[Crewdude1945]

wow, i am impressed.

[owenmunoz]

this has possibilities. interesting