An Interview with Asus Eee product manager Zing Chen. Comparing the OLPC XO to the Asus Eee, showing the Eee 900 running Linux and Windows XP and with its larger screen (perhaps lower battery life) and the probable $499 or $599 price tag.
SanDisk announced that they are providing the flash memory for the Intel Classmate PC which is going to be released in larger quantities by the end of this year, in cooperation with the One Laptop Per Child organization. SanDisk thus might provide the markets best solution for low cost Flash memory storage to replace hard drives in low cost and low power laptops.
This is a nice looking compact ultra low voltage laptop by Asus. In a certain way this will be a competitor to the Intel Classmate educationnal laptop. This one is using the VIA ultra low voltage processor to use as little as 3.5 watts in use.
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Pepper Computer has ported their flavour of Fedora Core based Linux OS onto the OLPC, here showing some impressive features like 480×360 resolution DivX video playback, eBook mode, fully working Firefox browser with flash, all those features that are perfectly working on the 100$ Laptop hardware:
A music synthesiser software running on two OLPC XO B1 laptops, demonstrated by Michail Bletsas, OLPC Chief Connectivity Officer at the Analog Devices meating room:
A demonstration of the OLPC outdoor, some software and Michail Bletsas, Chief Connectivity Officer for the OLPC at MIT, explaining how the Mesh Wi-Fi is going to work on the 100$ Laptop: