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One Education, the Australian offshoot of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, has hit the crowdfunding trail to find the resources needed to build its heir to the project's XO computer. As we've previously reported, One Education's new “Infinity” is a modular computer that allows users to swap out the device's battery, …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    One laptop per child...

    Ah yes thats the method the Chinese use in manufacturing.

    Thats why it wont be out til September 2016.

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    US$249???

    that price for what is really a pile of junk puts it in the area of a confidence trick

    you can buy a 10" Windows tablet with keyboard for the same money

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    1. Mage Silver badge
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      US$249?

      You can buy an Android tablet with keyboard cover for £45 on Amazon.

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        Re: US$249?

        But the Windows tablet is a computer (sort of) while the android tablet is a mobile phone missing the phone bit....

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          Re: US$249?

          The one in the article runs Android.

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            Re: US$249?

            yes it runs android - which makes it useless as a real computer

            the point I was trying to make was that for the same money you can buy something which has a real operating system and can do real computery things

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              Re: US$249?

              Since when is android not a real operating system? Top trolling

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    OLPC - Android

    The one laptop per child project has been very successful, although this one seems to be over priced, which defeats the purpose.

    OLPC has spawned Netbooks and the Pi.

    Android is as functional as a PC OS (Windows, Linux, Mac OS). Can anyone tell me what its can't do?

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      it can't run windows programs.........

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        Re: OLPC - Android

        Actually yes it can.

        A quick look and there are several windows emulators.

        Best guess would be that they would be painfully slow though.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    IIRC the orginal OLPC contained innovative ideas and technology to address the specific requirements of introducing computing to an environment that lacked reliable power & networking infrastructure. It then delivered those things at was at the time an ambitous target. This appears to offer a shitty piece of hardware with a gimmick that only addresses the concerns of a consumer based market found in the western world.

    Bah, in the bin with it.

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