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Chalana Perera

OLPC's Netbook Impact on Laptop PC Industry - OLPC News - 1 views

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SOCIAL equality IT SYSTEMS applications int systems IMPACT education ITGS Portfolio2 CriterionC

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  • 1. Windows XP would have been discontinued in 2007 or 2008 as was Microsoft's original plan
  • 2. The Windows XP licence for netbooks was lowered to $30 per device
  • 3. Netbooks are selling at a rate of 35 million units per year and represent more than 30% of the notebook market and this share is increasing.
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  • 4. Intel's profits shrank 90% between Q4 2007 and Q4 2008
  • OLPC is going to make the PC/Laptop industry realize that there is an alternative to X86 for full sized keyboard/screen computing.
  • prices and market trends obviously do matter for the education aspect of the OLPC project
Chalana Perera

OLPC For You and Me | Things Are Good - 0 views

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SOCIAL equality IT SYSTEMS int systems applications IMPACT education ITGS Portfolio2 CriterionC

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  • The cost of the machine has unfortunately increased from their proposed $100 USD to almost double that, in oprder to ensure that they can still get these laptops out to the kids they are selling them as pairs.
Chalana Perera

Xtra Ordinary Operating System for XO Laptop - OLPC News - 0 views

www.olpcnews.com/...ordinary_operating_system.html

SOCIAL equality IT SYSTEMS int systems comm sys applications basics IMPACT education ITGS Portfolio2 CriterionB

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    IT background of the issue
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    IT background of the issue
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