{"id":1296,"date":"2010-05-27T11:51:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T15:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2010-05-27T11:51:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T15:51:38","slug":"olpc-updates-its-hardware-roadmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2010\/05\/27\/olpc-updates-its-hardware-roadmap\/","title":{"rendered":"OLPC updates its hardware roadmap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marvell and OLPC just announced <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.laptop.org\/2010\/05\/27\/xo3-marvell-and-olpc\/\">a partnership to design a line of tablets<\/a>, including the current Marvell Moby and the OLPC XO-3 reference designs.\u00a0 This is good news for OLPC&#8217;s 3-year hardware plans, and make it more likely that we will be able to hit our target $75 pricepoint for a rugged, low-power tablet in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>There are also a lot of interesting cheap computers out there today &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.laptop.org\/2010\/05\/26\/100usd-computing-in-2010\/\">some now available for $100<\/a> &#8211; flimsy at the moment, but a good start.\u00a0 We need to start treating personal computing &#8212; and connectivity, caching, reliable storage: everything that comes with it &#8212; as a commodity and basic resource, not a luxury good.\u00a0 Until we do, we will never build up the relevant infrastructure at scale.\u00a0 [and the 10-100x differences in bandwidth available in different developed countries today &#8212; with the US on the low end &#8212; are a prime example of what this may look like].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvell and OLPC just announced a partnership to design a line of tablets, including the current Marvell Moby and the OLPC XO-3 reference designs.\u00a0 This is good news for OLPC&#8217;s 3-year hardware plans, and make it more likely that we will be able to hit our target $75 pricepoint for a rugged, low-power tablet in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[249,1021,879,2139],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computing","tag-infrastructure","tag-learning","tag-olpc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-kU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}