Another project OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) has become a reality

More recently, 160 children of one of the schools of the modest town of Cardal, located in the south of Uruguay, have already received the well-known “100-dollar” laptops running the Linux operating system. The presentation of the computers to schoolchildren was conducted by the president of Tabaré Vazquez.

The government allocated $ 15 million for the implementation of the OLPC project, and therefore, by 2009, it is planned to provide a laptop for each Uruguayan student. Unfortunately, there are no photos of this joyful event, for that is a small YouTube video:



Interestingly, the XO-1 (this is the name of the "100-dollar" computer) has not yet been selected as a laptop for the entire project. Fighting for the right to be elected: Intel, with their Classmate PC , and ITP-C produced in Israel. In one of the conferences, Esteban Galluzzi, an Intel manager, went so far as to equate the XO-1 with the Pentium II, and stressed that Intel's Classmate PC is capable of running Windows XP.