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One Laptop per Child

Join Mary Lou Jepsen, CTO of One Laptop per Child, as she presents the latest updates on the program, including enhancements in laptop technology, cost-structure adjustments, and deployment strategies. Key advancements include improved CPU performance, doubled DRAM and Flash memory, and effective solar and human-powered solutions. With the goal of achieving mass production readiness by September 2007, we focus on feedback to enhance learning experiences worldwide. Your questions and feedback are highly encouraged throughout the presentation.

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One Laptop per Child

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  1. One Laptop per Child One Laptop per Child Mary Lou Jepsen, Chief Technology Office

  2. Hardware Overview • Updates from last time • Prices • Maturity

  3. Feedback We want to make the best solution we can Please interrupt this presentation to ask questions Please call or email as often as you can: Mary Lou Jepsen, CTO mlj@laptop.org +1 617 452 5656

  4. Since March 8th meeting • 1000 extra B2s made with 256MB DRAM • Same Laptop for 2 years – Gen2 in 2009 • March 30th deadline • Server first heartbeats • Laptop CPU changed • DRAM and Flash both doubled • Mesh is really working • Batteries work • Website work (display) • Power Systems • Solar, human power, batteries, gang chargers

  5. Prices Laptop Cost ~>$175 * depending on volume with new CPU, Doubled Flash, DRAM Total Cost ~$200 per child • depending on existing infrastructure and volume for servers, repeaters, power infrastructure, etc Deployment, teachers, maintenance Costs? • very dependent on country

  6. Pricing Continued • Floats Down, sometime up • Quarterly pricing redo • Vendors make a small profit • Typically <3-4% margin • $100 will be reached by 2009 or sooner

  7. Maturity All is Ready for Mass Production in September 2007 • We are working with the world’s largest manufacturers for 18 months • We have test every aspect of our designs • We have released prototypes in unheard of numbers to get field data • Bugs and issues found in the field continue to be addressed and incorporated into final changes to mass production systems

  8. Will you assemble XOs in my country? Answer: Yes, eventually at high enough volume, but right now it’s too expensive Hub model

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