OLPC XO Laptop: coming to the UK in December
By Alexis • Nov 21st, 2008 • Category: LaptopsSo far the One Laptop Per Child or OLPC project has been popular in developing nations and a few days back it spread its wings to the developed nations (especially USA) as well via Amazon.com. At Amazon citizens of developed nations were offered the OLPC XO laptop, but for the price of two, so that one can be donated to a child in developing region. The good news is that now the OLPC will be coming to the UK also this December.
According to a listing on Amazon.co.uk, UK citizens will be offered XO laptops via the same scheme. This service will be launched on the 16th of December this year, but consumers can pre-order their laptops. The laptops will cost £275. While this is more than, say, the Acer Aspire One, the purchaser is actually paying for two laptops, one of which is sent to a child in a developing nation. Apart from this they will also have to pay a sum of £50 towards packaging and postage. However this charge is set up by OLPC and not by Amazon.
The OLPC XO laptop offers a variety of applications and a good hardware configuration. The one that will be available on Amazon.co.uk will have 1GB NAND flash storage and 256MB DDR RAM. It will be running on the Linux based Sugar operating system only. Neither the Microsoft version nor the dual boot one will be available as those models are meant for the developing countries only.
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