The first operating model of a laptop is 100 USD

Latest 100 USD laptop model.( Photo: CNet )

One Laptop Per Child project, One Laptop Per Child, has just demonstrated the first 100 USD version that could be put into production, because the device has integrated computer hardware into the model. design.

Walter Bender, software president of OLPC project, affirmed that this is an important event because both the design and hardware parameters have appeared before but are introduced separately.

Newly announced systems have vivid orange covers, next to green, blue and yellow. However, this is still not the final design. They are equipped with 800 x 480 pixel screens, while the OLPC project's official specification is 1,200 x 900 pixels.

OLPC plans to release a $ 100 computer, operating on the Linux operating system, in early 2007. These products will not be distributed at retail outlets but through major related major projects. covered.

The goal of OLPC (founded by 2005 by 2005 by Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT Media Lab) is to have millions of children in poor countries have the opportunity to use computers as a learning tool. But this is not the only ambition to build cheap equipment. Two chip makers Intel, AMD and US software corporation Microsoft are also developing similar systems.

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