XO-3: Ahead of Schedule
The OLPC's XO-3 planned for 2012 at $75 per unit.
The OLPC’s third incarnation of the $100 laptop, X0-3, will represent another cutting edge amalgamation of technologies, combining display technologies used in Amazon’s Kindle with the multi-touch interactivity of Apple’s iPad and new tough lightweight case plastics to enclose it all.
The MIT Media Lab is expecting to deliver the product to a price point of $75 and some two years ahead of schedule. The operating system is likely to be based on Google’s Android and run an ARM processor.
Google's Android OS on a test tablet.
Nicholas Negroponte, Director of the MIT Media Lab says that in 2011 we can expect to see a version using glass, but that the all plastic version won’t exist until 2012. The product will be hard wearing and be almost “extruded” into being.