$100 Laptop Pictures Unveiled (Link)

Available in fetching orange and yellow, or shades of blue and green, here's the $100 laptop, which was unveiled at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting yesterday. Almost immediately, pictures of the machine hit the net.

Nicholas Negroponte heads up the One Laptop Per Child organization which hopes to get massive orders from third world governments in order to put the devices into production. The idea is to provide every child in some developing countries with one of the machines.

What a great idea and what a nobel aim. I hope that the UAE will move faster in buying and distributing the cheap laptops to all kids. I think the next important step will be to cover the whole country with a free Wi-Fi network so everybody can get access to the internet anywhere and anytime.

According to OLPC website, the proposed $100 machine will be a 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 3× 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 four USB ports. 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 will use innovative power (including wind-up) and will be able to do most everything except store huge amounts of data.

To see if the new laptop will be available in your country soon, take a look at this map.

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First pictures of the $100 laptop (The Register)
MIT’s $100 Laptop Photos (Gizmodo)
Working OLPC prototype gets its close-up (Engadget)