OLPC scrap dual-display XO-2; single-sheet “model 3.0 slate” in works

Chris Davies

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OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte has revealed that the twin-display OLPC XO-2 2.0 project has been scrapped, in favor of an updated – but cosmetically identical – revamp of the existing 1.0 XO-1 model and a new, model 3.0 that has “totally different industrial design, more like a sheet of paper”. Speaking to Xconomy, the outspoken exec also sought to redefine the initial, well-publicized aim of “the $100 laptop” in terms of total cost of ownership: $1 per child per week to buy, maintain and connect the machine.

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Posted 4 months ago #
Alexandra
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How can OLPC claim TCO is 1$ per week per child? Assuming their estimate of a five-year life span for each computer is correct (which it isn’t: I have seen them in classrooms and there is no way they will last 5 years), that leaves $60 per computer after $200 purchase price to cover: distribution, electrical installation (the schools these XOs are destined for mostly don’t have electricity at all, let alone plugs or power for individual computers), satellite dish, training for teachers, repairs, replacements for lost and broken XOs. Who is kidding who?

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