Next XO Laptop



Next XO Laptop

One Laptop per Child non-profit organization that provides affordable laptop computers to children in poor countries plans to develop the second version of the famous XO laptop, which will be called XO-2.

Next XO Laptop

<-234x60 Half Banner - left->"Based on feedback from governments, educators and most important, from the children themselves, we are aggressively working to lower the cost, power and size of the XO laptop so that it is more affordable and useable by the world's poorest children," said Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of One Laptop per Child. "The delivery of the first generation XO laptop has sparked tremendous global interest in the project and provided valuable input on how to make the XO laptop an even better learning tool moving forward."

Next XO Laptop

So what will the next XO laptop bring new? It seems that XO-2 will feature lower power consumption to 1Watt, smaller footprint of up to half-size the currently available XO version, and dual-touch sensitive display designed by designed by Pixel Qi to enhance the e-book experience.
OLPC will release it sometime in 2010.

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