Buy OLPC XO Laptop via Amazon
By Jenny • Nov 14th, 2008 • Category: Industry NewsOne Laptop Per Child, popularly known as OLPC has achieved great success in developing countries. To further promote this project the world pioneer in e-commerce, Amazon has announced that it will be selling the OLPC’s XO laptops through Amazon.com.
These laptops will be sold in the same way the G1G1 program was carried out. The buyers have to pay for two laptops out of which one will be shipped to the buyer itself and the other one will be donated to a child in developing country. Jim Gettys, vice president, software engineering, OLPC announced that only Linux based XO laptops will be sold through Amazon.com in US as of now.
However, the OLPC is finding out the possibility of extending this service to other countries too. The Linux based XO laptops that are approved for online selling has got an impressive configuration. All the units are powered by Linux Sugar operating system which offers all the necessary applications and a bunch of exciting games to enable the children get hold of the technology in a playful manner.
The hardware too is sufficient enough to handle all the tasks without any glitch. The XO laptops feature a 1GB of flash memory, 256MB of RAM and 7.5 inches of bright LCD. These laptops are optimized to support wireless networking too.
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