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OLPC Give One Get One sales confirmed to begin on November 17
Despite some earlier reports that Amazon would begin sales of the next XO laptop Give One Get One program on November 1, it looks like that date was off by a few weeks. The latest information, along with confirmation from the OLPC foundation is that sales will begin on November 17. That’s a bit longer to wait than we originally expected, but on the bright side that just gives us a little longer to put some money aside.
Amazon XO laptop sales further confirmed; Its all Sugar, no Windows XP models
After the recent popularity of the initial news that the ‘Give One Get One’ program would be returning this November with sales being handled through Amazon, the OLPC’s Product Manager Kim Quirk posted a message on wiki.laptop.org further confirming the news, but also added an extra detail that will possibly disappoint some that were a more »
OLPC’s ‘Give One Get One’ program to return November 1, courtesy of Amazon
It turns out the earlier reports were indeed accurate, and the ‘Give One Get One’ program will be making a return later this year, and it will be handled by none other than Amazon.com.
This information comes courtesy of Matt Keller who is the director of Europe, Middle East and Africa at OLPC and he has confirmed that Amazon will begin selling the XO laptop in late November with sales running through the end of December. Keller also went on to clarify their reasoning behind Amazon handling the sales, stating that they are just “a small group of people,” which hopefully will put an end to the shipping issue complaints that we saw last year.
Overclocking speeds up the OLPC XO’s CPU
Some hackers just don’t know what to do with so much time on their hands. But at least for this one, he did something good and worthwhile – that is make the CPU of the OLPC XO run faster than it normally could or what it is programmed to do. By default, the XO’s CPU runs at 433mhz and memory runs at 166mhz.
The process involves an industry old way of overclocking the CPUs clock to make it run faster than it was programmed to do. The overclocking process can be easily done if you are a tech geek. If you are successful you’ll get an OLPC XO running at 566mhz and a memory speed of 233mhz. Here’s the exact procedure from the OLPC News site:
