Comments on: Amazon to start selling OLPC’s XO Laptop this November; dual boot version next month http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/09/04/amazon-to-start-selling-olpcs-xo-laptop-this-november/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:20:57 -0500 hourly 1 By: Kyle Austin http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/09/04/amazon-to-start-selling-olpcs-xo-laptop-this-november/comment-page-1/#comment-872762 Kyle Austin Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:33:56 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=39483#comment-872762 "As it has been reported, One Laptop per Child will sell its XO Laptop on Amazon.com later this year as part of a global 'Give One, Get One' (G1,G1) program. Although the first iteration of the 'G1,G1' program was extremely successful and sold more then 185,000 laptops, the delivery of the laptops in the USA did not run as smoothly as we anticipated. Selling the laptops on Amazon.com will provide us with the resources to process and ship the laptops globally in a timely fashion. In addition, contrary to some media reports, it will be a Linux-based XO Laptop that will be offered as part of the global initiative and not a dual-boot machine running both Windows and Linux.” “As it has been reported, One Laptop per Child will sell its XO Laptop on Amazon.com later this year as part of a global ‘Give One, Get One’ (G1,G1) program. Although the first iteration of the ‘G1,G1′ program was extremely successful and sold more then 185,000 laptops, the delivery of the laptops in the USA did not run as smoothly as we anticipated. Selling the laptops on Amazon.com will provide us with the resources to process and ship the laptops globally in a timely fashion.

In addition, contrary to some media reports, it will be a Linux-based XO Laptop that will be offered as part of the global initiative and not a dual-boot machine running both Windows and Linux.”

]]> By: Embassy Pro Books http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/09/04/amazon-to-start-selling-olpcs-xo-laptop-this-november/comment-page-1/#comment-868448 Embassy Pro Books Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:19:33 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=39483#comment-868448 Well its for charity so thats good. Well its for charity so thats good.

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