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2008
The new 13-inch MacBook
Friday 21 November 2008 Review Roundup: How to Buy a Netbook
Early on, netbooks were considered second computers, best for e-mail and Web surfing. But because manufacturers are slashing prices and tacking on extras, we're seeing netbooks that are both powerful and full-featured.
Tuesday 18 November 2008 OLPC Extends 'Give One, Get One' to Amazon
OLPC on YouTube
OLPC With Charlie Rose | video
Friday 14 November 2008 $100 laptop to be sold in Europe
The One Laptop Per Child organisation will start selling its XO laptop in Europe on 17 November.
Monday 10 November 2008 8 Laptops Under $800
Thursday 06 November 2008 Laptops beat desktops
Portable PC shipments top traditional ones for the first time
?Saturday 01 November 2008 What's the difference between Netbooks and notebooks?
Friday 31 October 2008
Dell Launches the Inspiron Mini 12—In Japan
Dell joins the game with the Inspiron Mini 9 ($399 direct for XP version with E-Value code, regularly $474), sharing space with such systems as the ASUS EeePC 900, the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC , the Acer Aspire One, the MSI Wind, and the Lenovo IdeaPad S10. Despite all the time Dell has had to develop a great product, the final result isn't quite enough to overtake the MSI Wind, our Editors' Choice in this category.
Acer Aspire One
Friday 17 October 2008 Www.costco.ca | Acer 17" WXGA+3gb $799.99 +$15 S&H
Acer 17" Notebook Computer with Core 2 Duo Processor $1,499.99
S&H: $29.00 Mauro said no! Bargain-basement price; decent performance; 16:9 display will appeal to movie lovers; does Draft N Wi-Fi.a flimsy plastic chassis, clacky mouse buttons, and integrated graphics while a Webcam and HDMI port go missing.
HP Pavilion Entertainment dv7t Customizable Notebook PC $899.99
Friday 05 September 2008 One Laptop signs up with Amazon
Online retailer Amazon will help the One Laptop Per Child organisation with its plans to sell its XO laptop in the US.
Gateway P-173XL FX notebook $2000
Thursday 14 August 2008 LG E500-G.APB7A9 Express Dual Series Notebook PC - Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 2.0GHz, Bluetooth, 802.11b/g Wireless, 4GB DDR2, 320GB HDD, DL DVDRW, 15.4" WXGA, 4 USB Webcam, Windows Vista Home Premium Price: $949.99
LG R700-X.AP04A9 Express Dual Series Notebook PC - Intel Core 2 Duo T5850 2.16GHz, Bluetooth, 802.11a/g/n Wireless, 4GB DDR2, 320GB HDD, DL DVDRW, 17" WSXGA+, Webcam, Windows Vista Home Premium Price: $1,299.99
HP Notebook PCs $1,399.99 20.1" high-definition widescreen ATI discrete graphics, webcam, Bluetooth, TV tuner, premium software
Options include 1080p display, Nvidia discrete graphics, Blu-Ray, next-generation wireless-N
Monday 04 August 2008 costco.ca $2,850 17" Dell™ XPS M1730 4USB ports English T8300, 17-in. WUXGA 4 GB, 320 GB
512 MB SLI Dual GeForce™ 8700M GT Blu-ray Disc Combo (DVD+/-RW + BD-ROM)
Dell XPSMI730 $2,850 4 USB hevey hot Costpro
now $2,450 reviewsConsPrice, weight, only an hour or so battery life, just the typical stuff you would expect for a gaming laptop so what plug it in!
Wednesday 23 July 2008
Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premiu These Desktops Have Brains and Brawn
Intel's latest generation of microprocessors is more compact and transistor-rich than ever, providing better performance and energy efficiency. Check out a few of our favorite desktops packed with a new crop of smarter, faster CPUs.
1. The lowest score came from the Memory. I will probably upgrade to something more when it becomes available (currently 2 gig.) Remember 32 bit vista can only use 3 gig total.
June 11, 2008 An agreement signed between Colombia and the OLPC Foundation will provide 65,000 schoolchildren with laptops.
It grieves us to see The Economist’s review of one of our favorite development projects, but we take heart in the conclusion that “Mr. Negroponte’s vision for a $100 laptop was not the right computer, only the right price. Like many pioneers, he laid a path for others to follow.”
Friday 06 June 2008 The rise of the low-cost laptop
...one respect the XO Laptop has undoubtedly made an impact: by helping to spawn a new market for low-cost laptops. Hardly any models costing $500 or less were available when the XO burst onto the scene, but now there is a wide selection of such machines, from familiar makers such as HP and Intel, and from relative newcomers such as Asus and Pioneer Computers. By raising the very possibility of a $100 laptop, the XO presented the industry with a challenge. Wayan Vota, founder of OLPCNews.com, an independent website that follows the project, calls the XO a “harbinger of an entirely new class of computers”.
Tuesday 03 June 2008 Twenty-five years ago, Radio Shack released the first wildly successful laptop computer in the United States. The TRS-80 Model 100
Saturday 31 May 2008 Colombia signs up for XO laptop
The Caldas region of Colombia is buying 65,000 XO laptops for schoolchildren throughout the state.
Dell enters the netbook market with this unnamed machine
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Dell is joining the burgeoning ranks of companies offering cut-down laptops, called netbooks, aimed at the developing world and general consumers.
The laptop was shown by Michael Dell to the editor of website Gizmodo at the All Things Digital Conference.
According to the official Dell blog, Michael Dell "positioned it as the perfect device for the next billion internet users".
Wednesday 28 May 2008 Laptops for College Grads Just got your college diploma? Jump into the real world the right way, with a laptop to match your new lifestyle and—hopefully—career.
OLPC Provides First Look at the XO 2.0
Jim Rapoza: At an OLPC event at MIT, Nicholas Negroponte
provided a first glimpse at the next generation of the XO laptop.
Wednesday 21 May 2008
Design revamp for '$100 laptop'
The XO2 looks and acts like an electronic book
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The wraps have been taken off the new version of the XO laptop designed for schoolchildren in developing countries.
The revamped machine created by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project looks like an e-book and has had its price slashed to $75 per device.
OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte gave a glimpse of the "book like" device at an unveiling event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Saturday 17 May 2008 '$100 laptop' platform moves on
An independent effort to develop the software originally designed for the $100 laptop is launched.
Friday 16 May 2008 OLPC to Run Windows
Microsoft reached an agreement to make available its Windows operating system software for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's XO Laptop, the company said on Thursday
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp reached an agreement to make available its Windows operating system software for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's XO Laptop, the company said on Thursday.
Microsoft was not part of the project started by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negroponte to develop an inexpensive laptop computer for elementary school children in developing countries.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's participation in the One Laptop
Per Child OLPC initiative has been fraught with mystery and
disinformation from the get-go. But on May 15, Microsoft
officials finally gave the OLPC project Redmond's official
blessing.
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Saturday Feb 2, 2008 'The important thing is, it [laptop] didn't do harm'
When the Eastern Townships School Board decided to supply students between Grades 3 and 11 with their...
Sunday Jan 27, 2008 Tiny, green and cute as a button
... Tiny, green and cute as a button. The $100 Laptop. ... In 2005, he presented a prototype
of a $100 laptop designed for students in the developing world. ...
Saturday 05 January 2008
Friday 04 January 2008 One clunky laptop per child
Great idea. Shame about the mediocre computer
2007
David Pogue reviews the $100 laptop. OLPC
November 30, 2007 A First Look at One Laptop Per Child's PC; Is Leopard the New Vista?; Our Top 10 Unlocked Phones; and More
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A children’s laptop, equipped with a camera and wireless communication ability.
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Monday 24 September 2007 Buy a Laptop for a Child, Get Another Laptop Free
By STEVE LOHR
One Laptop Per Child, an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing world’s children, is reaching out to the public through an interesting marketing campaign.
...Mr. Negroponte, the founding director of the M.I.T. Media Laboratory, views the problem as a temporary one in the long-term pursuit of using technology as a new channel of learning and self-expression for children worldwide.
“Give 1 Get 1,” in which Americans and Canadians can buy two laptops for $399
Sunday 29 July 2007
The $100 laptop is fast becoming a reality
BACK at the dawn of the personal-computer era, in the late 1970s, millions of future programmers around the world got their first taste of writing software by using an ingenious little computer that cost less than $100 (about $240 in today’s money).
EPA Wonder toy
To save power, for instance, the XO’s liquid-crystal display (the biggest consumer of juice in a laptop) can be flipped from backlit colour to self-reflecting monochrome. That not only saves electricity, but helps the screen to be seen better in bright sunlight, where many XOs are likely to be used.
The number crunching is done by an AMD Geode processor running at a modest 433 megahertz, compared with the 2-3 gigahertz of conventional laptops. This processor allows the XO to use less energy and therefore generate much less heat. Result: no power-consuming cooling fan.
Computers for all (sr)
Design the Computer
- Mobile Latop to plug into a desktop Monitor or TV
- block downloading new software from the web. Only from head office
want new pgm ...ask headoffice
Build computer
- Google
Pay for it
- Gold watch part of retiremrnt package
- Childern of
Board / advisors
Bert, Tyler, Ratzer, GlenGoucher, Wife
Links
google Nicholas Negroponte One Laptop per Child OLPC Foundation
The vision video 18:00
Using a giant table-like display, users are able to draw, interact with media, and use another new technology called domino tagging, in which a real-life object on the computer's surface is identified and becomes an on-screen object that can be interacted with.
Computer of the Future multi touch
or try
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atomfilms.com
 Second Life
01/30 - University is about to get a lot more interesting for those who pursue their studies online. While traditional correspodence courses offer students little interaction, a program being offered at Loyalist College in Ontario promises to make that virtually different.
(Runs 02:29)
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