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They call it Sugar on a stick. It’s the collaborative open source software originally developed for One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), the hoped-for $100 XO laptop, which actually comes in a $199. And now it’s available for all PCs, and “a great new opportunity to breathe new life into these old machines," Walter Bender, founder of Sugar Labs, told the BBC.
It can be run from a USB drive, giving older PCs a new interface and access to collaborative educational software.
Custom computer maker AVADirect has been hawking overclocked, high-performance rigs to gamers and computing enthusiasts for a while…and now the company claims to be the first U.S. company offering a notebook computer system based on Intel’s high-performance Core i7 processor in the form of its Clevo D900F Core i7 Gaming Notebook. And it’s not just a vanilla notebook: it touts a 17-inch screen and supports up yo three hard drives and 12 GB of RAM.
MIT’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) got a boost at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting, which showed rainbow-colored working prototypes of the $100 laptops. Aimed at children in development markets, the laptops are designed to bring basic computing and communications capabilities to classrooms in areas where infrastructure to support information technology may be minimal to non-existent. Although concept mockups of the OLPC systems showed a hand crank which could power the system if no external power source was available, the working models seem to rely on battery and external power.
Intel Corporation provided its first public demonstration of forthcoming microprocessors at its Intel Developer Forum currently underway in San Francisco, unveiling new chips codenamed Merom, Conroe, and Woodcrest aimed at notebook, desktop, and server products, respectively. Intel CEO Paul Otellini predicted the company’s forthcoming microprocessor products will deliver a "power of ten" breakthrough to a variety of products by reducing energy consumption tenfold or by bringing ten times the performance to existing products.
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