XO Laptop second generation revealed

OLPC Laptop Project (OLPC) recently officially revealed the first images of the second generation XO Laptop. Notably, the XO-2 is equipped with a touch screen.

Nicholas Negroponte - Executive Chairman of OLPC Project - said the XO-2 is currently in the process of producing research. The focus of this research is to lower the price of XO-2 to $ 75. XO-2 is expected to officially launch in 2010.

According to the images revealed, XO-2 Laptop is about half the size of the first-generation XO Laptop with and without the keyboard, and instead has two 16 x 9cm touch screens. All control and input operations will be done via the touch screen.

Negroponte said the design of the XO-2 Laptop was inspired by a book with the goal of turning the product into a user-friendly e-book, but still as a full-fledged laptop as a generation. Most XO Laptop.

' XO-2 is capable of containing about 500 e-books. In developing countries like China or Brazil, each student has to spend up to $ 19 a year to buy books. Meanwhile, XO-2 Laptop is expected to only cost about 75 USD '.

Currently OLPC has not disclosed much information about the configuration specification of XO-2 Laptop.

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