Learn more about the One Laptop Per Child project and its unique XO Laptop with news, reviews, and hands-on accounts. We even have a diary from Mali, where LAPTOP sponsored a pilot program to give OLPC XOs to a class of 30.

OLPC in Mali

Ten Dollars for a Laptop? Head to India to Check it Out
Forget OLPC's initiative to create the $100 laptop, a $10 laptop (called the Rs 500) prototype is ready to make an appearence in Tirupati, India. According to The Times of India, the cheap laptop aime...

Has OLPC Gone too Far? Or Do they Finally Make the Point?
Yesterday, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) posted its latest commercial. The non-profit has gotten national television advertising time donated by some of the top networks, including CNN. The commercial, ...

OLPC's Give 1, Get 1 Launches; We Have Seen the Impact Of Giving
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is launching their second annual Give 1, Get 1 campaign. Starting today, Americans and Europeans can buy an XO for themselves for $399 on Amazon.com, while at the same time...

OLPC Mali: Photo Gallery
Following One Laptop per Child's (OLPC) Give 1, Get 1 program last year LAPTOP Magazine was committed to witnessing the impact that giving an XO could have on a child of the developing world. To that ...

OLPC Mali: Collaboration Emerges As the Program Winds Down
In our previous posts that have followed our One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Mali program we witnessed how the fourth and fifth graders in the village of Ouelessebougou, Mali utilized the 30XO laptops do...

OLPC Mali: Kids Take Home the XO Laptops
After introducing the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop to the teachers and then the third and fourth grade students involved in our OLPC pilot project in Ouelessebougou, Mali, we finally got to see how exactly the kids use the XO laptops. .

OLPC Mali: The Kids Get The XOs
After introducing the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop to the teachers involved in our OLPC pilot project in Ouelessebougou, Mali it was time to give the 30 laptops bought by LAPTOP Magazine to the thir...

OLPC Mali: Village Teachers Learn to Use the XO
When we decided to send 30 XO laptops to the village of Quessoborgo in Mali we were confident that the children would love the laptops, but the teachers were another story. While we worked with the pr...

A Different Back to School Laptop: OLPC's XOs Head to Mali
Around this time of year students (along with their parents or at least their wallets) head to Best Buy to pick up the latest Apple MacBook or sleek looking laptop. Of course, we hope they all consult...

OLPC Reviews and Hands-Ons

My 8-Year-Old Reviews the OLPC XO
Our kid tester found the groundbreaking XO machine to have plenty of shortcomings. But considering its mission as a children's laptop for the developing world--and its ultra-low price--it has great potential.

Hands-On with One Laptop Per Child's XO Laptop
We visited the OLPC Labs to get our hands on the much-hyped laptop. Created with children of the developing world in mind, this notebook might just change the face of mobile computing.

OLPC News

OLPC Goes Via for Generation 1.5 of XO
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) may be hard at work on the all-touch generation 2.0 of its XO laptop intended for children of the developing world, but holding true to its promise it will be updating its original XO. .

Sugar Labs' New Version of Sugar Learning Platform Is Netbook and PC Ready
You don't have to have an One Laptop Per Child XO laptop to easily run the child friendly, Linux Sugar operating system anymore. Sugar Labs, which was started by OLPC's former president of Software an...

The Future of Touch Computing
The iPhone made touch a must-have feature on cell phones, but larger touchscreen notebooks may not prove as appealing.

PixelQi's Low Powered Screens to Be Found in Netbooks
PixelQi, a screen technology company started by One Laptop per Child (OLPC) alum Mary Lou Jepsen, is ready to shake up the cookie cutter netbooks with outdoor readable, low-power 10-inch LCD screens. ...

OLPC XO-2 Mock Up Shows Up at Davos
This week Davos, Switzerland is home to the World Economic Forum. Gathering with the leading political, economic and intellectual leaders of the world seems to be an early One Laptop per Child (OLPC) XO -2 prototype or mockup..

OLPC's Give 1, Get 1 Takes a Hit from Failing Economy and Rise of Netbooks
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) ramped up its second annual Give 1, Get 1 program in November 2008 with more marketing force than ever before, including national television ads (one even with a digitally ...

Newest Hackintosh: OLPC XO
OLPC News forum members are just as hack and mod-inclined as other netbook enthusiast communities. They've figured out how to get Mac OS 9 on the XO -- it requires Ubuntu and an emulator, but no one ever said hackintoshing was easy. .

John Lennon "Imagines" OLPC's XO Changing the World
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) has been aggressively promoting its Give 1, Get 1 program through donated national advertising spots this holiday season. The commercial starring a small African girl named Zimi has been airing for weeks.

Amazon UK's OLPC Orders -- Cancellations On The Horizon?
OLPC News is reporting that consumers who pre-orderd XOs are getting e-mails stating that OLPC hasn't yet shipped them and, if they don't do so within 30 days of orders placed, the transaction will be...

Tom Brady Gives an OLPC XO?
Of course, we at LAPTOP know we are in good company in donating One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO laptops to children of the developing world, but in the company of Tom Brady? .

OLPC Give 1, Get 1 to Start November 17 through Amazon.com
Last week a One Laptop Per Child official leaked that Amazon.com will be taking the orders for the company's upcoming Give 1 Get 1 program. Through OLPC's second annual Give 1, Get 1 program the XO la...

Windows XP Ready for OLPC XO; OLPC To Revisit Give 1, Get 1 in November
We reported months back, to the dismay of many Linux and Sugar lovers, that One Laptop Per Child had officially teamed up with Microsoft to port over Windows XP to the OLPC XO. According to ZDNet, Mic...

First Look: OLPC XO-2
I am here this morning in Cambridge, Mass., at OLPC's Global Country Workshop. Opening the conference this morning was OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte, who announced the second generation of the OLPC XO laptop, which will be called the XO-2..

OLPC XO Goes to Africa
Our recipient of One Laptop Per Child's XO kept a journal of her experiences using it with children in Guinea.

OLPC XO vs. Asus Eee PC 701
Two highly touted, kid-friendly, low-priced laptops slug it out to become king of the ultraportables.

Complete Coverage: One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO
Catch up on the OLPC XO saga, from its battle with Intel to its latest trial: Hands-on with children in Guinea and Mali.