The hippies philanthropists at OLPC are overhauling the guts of their XO-1 with the aim of keeping the portable’s battery life while increasing its capabilities.
The big news is the adoption of Via’s C7-M chip, with clock speeds between 400MHz and 1GHz, that’ll add new possibilities like HD decoding and surround sound. But that’s not the end of the upgrades.
XO-1′s memory should get a bump to 1GB, and its storage will get pushed to 4GB or even 8GB as an option. The upgrade, which is being referred to as the XO-1.5 rather than a totally new model, should start shipping in late August. [OLPC News]
MIke Tomich
Monday, April 20, 2009 at 4:07 AMOLPC XO program is doing much harm to the children. They are giving the computers to children that are much too young for them because their fingers are too soft for the repetitive motion forces generated when pushing the keyboard buttons.
Go to the left side of our web site http://www.miketomich.com and look at the pictures of computer damaged fingers of children.
This is a very serious issue involving hand functional losses due to off angularity of their fingers, and off parallel knuckles.
Nicholas Negroponte is so strung-out on seeking world-wide recognition equal to Carnegie and Rockefeller that he has tunnel vision and can’t see the injuries. He has no mechanical engineering understanding of material creep force tolerance thresholds and the destruction of dynamic force shock loads which the young children receive because of soft un-calcified finger bones.
It is such a shame to see his pictures showing children developing deformed fingers. Children should not use them until they are at least 8 years-old and then monitored for deformity development.
Nicholas Negroponte means well, but he will be known as “Cripple Nick.”
Thanks for posting my comments … Mike Tomich