One Laptop Per Child Introduces XO-2 Concept with Dual Touchscreen for 2010

Submitted by lalit on May 21, 2008 - 6:38pm.

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) introduced the first laptop XO in 2005 and started shipping them in late 2007. The two main objectives of designing the XO laptop were low cost and low power requirement. Now the organization has started working on next generation of the XO laptop, the XO-2. The design objectives will remain same to reduce power requirement and lower cost. XO-2 will have power consumption of 1 watt and cost $75. The XO-2 will have dual touchscreens and can be used as a traditional laptop or as an eBook. The laptop will be half the size of present generation, folding up to make it book-scale. OLPC had originally targeted $100 price tag for XO laptop but last year it was costing almost $200 and now it is around $188. Designing a dual touchscreen laptop for $75 will be really impossible even in 2010. I don’t think the present generation XO will reach $100 price target even in 2010 leave alone a dual touchscreen system.

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