Give One Laptop, Get One
Starting November 12, One Laptop Per Child will be offering a Give 1 Get 1 Program. For $399, you will be purchasing two XO laptops—one that will be sent to empower a child to learn in a developing nation, and one that will be sent to your child at home.
If you’re interested, visit http://www.xogiving.org/ and sign up.
OLPC was started by Nicholas Negroponte and a core of Media Lab veterans. Its vision is to empower children in the remotest parts of the world and expose them to knowledge and their own creative and problem solving potential via laptops, the ultimate portal to ideas.
About the laptopThe XO laptop is Linux-based, with a dual-mode display-both a full-color, transmissive DVD mode, and a second display option that is black and white, reflective, and sunlight-readable at three times the resolution. The laptop will have a 500MHz processor and 128MB of DRAM, with 500MB of Flash memory; it will not have a hard disk, but it will have three USB ports and an SD-card slot for expansion. The laptops will have wireless broadband that, among other things, allows them to work as a mesh network; each laptop will be able to talk to its nearest neighbors, creating an ad hoc, local area network. The laptops are designed to be extremely power efficient, enabling the use of innovative power systems (including wind-up).
