10.01.2008 17:53 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

OLPC spin-off plans $75 laptop

Filed under: Laptops According to a report in the New York Times today, a spin-off of OLPC is planning to launch a competitor to the company's $200 XO laptop. Mary Lou Jepsen, former CTO of the Nicholas Negroponte-led company, claims that her new organization, Pixel Qi, can do it cheaper and better. "Spinning out from OLPC enables the development of a new machine, beyond the XO [laptop], while leveraging a larger market for new technologies," Jepsen wrote on the company's website, adding, "Besides, I need that extra $25 for laundry and stuff." Jepsen claims that the cost of a device like the XO can be r

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