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Little green laptop a hit in Peruvian village

FRANK BAJAK

Associated Press

Latest comment posted at 8:21 AM EST 04/01/08

Peru has made the single biggest order to date — more than 272,000 “XO” laptops — in its quest to turn around its primary education system ...Read the full article

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  1. wawa dave from Trinodado, Canada writes: I have been following this since i first saw it on slash/dot. And saw how MS backed out because there was no prophit in it. And have seen many linux forum and news letters mentioning this laptop. I really hope it get a good chance to do the work it was ment to do. Would be nice if they checked out Gutenberg project for 10,000,s free ebooks. And had a way of offering these to any that could use them with these laptops.
  2. The Emperor's Paparazzi from Canada writes:
    From the BBC:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7171201.stm

    "[Intel] has been promoting its own cheap laptop, the Classmate, in many of the same places as the OLPC."

    "...Intel was selling its Classmate at a loss to make the XO laptop less attractive."

    The next time I buy/recommend a computer, it will not have the Intel chipset.

    And what's this about "...lack of the Windows operating system, still being tested for the XO, have dissuaded many potential government buyers."???? Is there some Microsoft "marketing" going on here?

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