At first glance, PeeWee PC's Pivot Tablet Laptop is a formidable rival to the long-standing OLPC XO.
The XO Tablet will be available at select Walmart stores and Walmart.com this year.
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Cris Payne, senior manager of customer intelligence, said XO would "strongly consider" hiring M.
"The XO-1 was really designed as if we were Apple, " Nicholas Negroponte says in the interview.
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If the ingenuity of the XO's hardware is impressive, the machine's software is truly ground-breaking.
This processor allows the XO to use less energy and therefore generate much less heat.
Indeed, all rotating parts have been dispensed with to make the XO rugged enough for the wild.
Once that rural Indian nine-year-old gets a peak at YouTube, the XO doesn't stand a chance.
Most recently the Caldas region of Colombia signed up to buy 65, 000 XO machines.
But for all that high-minded ambition, the XO falls flat in a key area: the Web.
Games suffered from crippling sputters and stalls, thanks to the XO's small memory capacity.
All of these features will help take the new, dual-function XO to a new level.
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One quick caveat to you soon-to-be-XO-1-toting Libyan kids: we will so pwn you at Chinese Checkers.
Even the OLPC XO-3 plans to eschew the clickity keyboard in favor of a touchscreen version.
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The new XO-4 Touch is more than just a device, it's a new way of facilitating learning.
ENGADGET: One Laptop Per Child's XO-4 Touch 'expected' to be released in Q1 2013
We'll try and get it out there using the exact opposite approach that we did with the XO-1.
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His other efforts included plowing millions in a telecom network called XO and a satellite service called Teledesic.
Part laptop, part tablet, the XO-4 Touch will represent a huge leap forward in what OLPC can offer.
ENGADGET: One Laptop Per Child's XO-4 Touch 'expected' to be released in Q1 2013
The XO-4 Touch will combine the XO's existing laptop functionality and sunlight-usable display with a full-fledged tablet mode.
ENGADGET: One Laptop Per Child's XO-4 Touch 'expected' to be released in Q1 2013
With their impressive history with mobile devices, Neonode has developed energy-efficient technology that is ideal for the XO.
ENGADGET: One Laptop Per Child's XO-4 Touch 'expected' to be released in Q1 2013
As such, the mesh approach gives XO an array of collaborative tools that puts expensive business laptops to shame.
Judging from the stir the XO has created, the answer is more likely to be months rather than years.
That makes it easier to get the XO 3.0 in the hands of those in need around the world.
OLPC's XO laptops currently run on chips from Intel competitor Advanced Micro Devices.
Press a single icon and XO Learning switches from English to Spanish with all new content depending on the language.
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In November, however, Negroponte blamed Intel for sluggish sales of XO laptops and demanded that the company stop selling Classmate.
In the developing world, where the XO and the Classmate were originally intended to land, the choice isn't as simple.
In mid-May the OLPC group unveiled a deal with Microsoft to put the Windows XP operating system on the XO.
Three years later, April 2007, I brought him one of the first XO laptops, which has a wonderful and special LCD.
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While the XO-4 Touch's launch date and pricing are yet to be confirmed, the release is expected in Q1 in 2013.
ENGADGET: One Laptop Per Child's XO-4 Touch 'expected' to be released in Q1 2013
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