OLPC Announces New XO Laptops

Remember the One Laptop per Child or OLPC? The group is currently revitalizing its operations with the hope fulfilling their mission of reaching 500 million children in all remote corners of the planet by announcing three new concept XO laptops.

OLPC is currently developing three new XO laptops:

XO 1.5 – sports almost the same design as the original XO laptop but this it will be powered by a VIA processor instead of the previous AMD. With this, the machine will be doubly faster, with 4x DRAM memory and 4x Flash memory. This laptop will run both Linux and Windows OS and will be available in 2010 for $200.

XO 1.75 – it will have the same industrial design as the previous XO laptop but this time with rubber-bumpered on the outside and in the inside. It will feature an 8.9-inch touch sensitive display and will be based on an ARM processor from Marvell. This will have 2x speed at 1/4 power. This laptop will have a market price of $150.

XO 3.0 – This is OLPC take on the tablet PC. It will be a single sheet of flexible and unbreakable plastic without holes in it.  If you’ve watched the movie AVATAR, this is similar to what was used in the movie.

Via