I’ve been following the OLPC (or $100 Laptop) for a while, and I’ve been impressed on how close they’ve kept to the original specs. The current short run development costs are $148 each. Plus the specs that Paul will get into are pretty impressive, for that small cost.
Last week at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, my fellow Computational Media major friend John Swisshelm won a game design competition. For that, he was awarded one of the $100 laptops created as part of the One Laptop Per Child initiative. I was able to get my hands on the $100 laptop for a bit and took some pictures for you guys.
The $100 laptop is not available for public distribution and the model which I got to look at was the second beta. The first beta laptop as you might know, featured a hand-crank for charging. OLPC found that the crank was bulky and broke often so the current beta 2 version has a standard charger. However, the next release will feature a ripcord-type charging mechanism, similar to how you start a lawn mower.
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