[OLPC-SF] Fwd: Your Linux-based iPad

[Grant Bowman]

This is a message from a discussion on the berkeleylug.com mail list.
What's the latest news on the XO-2 scheduled for 2012?

Grant


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From: Zeke Krahlin <ezekielk at goct.net>
Date: Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: Your Linux-based iPad
To: berkeleylug at googlegroups.com, Grant Bowman <grantbow at gmail.com>


Quoting Grant Bowman <grantbow at gmail.com>:

> Zeke, nice catch,

Thanks to my Firefox plugin, "RSS Ticker".  :)

> Now the first tablet to use a
> Pixel-Qi display (same people that developed the XO-1 screen) so it's
> visible in direct sunlight will be a real knockout.  Oh, they started
> production!  http://www.pixelqi.com/

What about the upcoming OLPC tablet? I look very much forward to its
release, scheduled for 2012...in fact, I wanna buy it. I am guessing
it will come with that Pixel-Qi display?

Here's a brief article on that tablet:

http://mashable.com/2009/12/23/olpc-tablet/

And another one, just 'cause some of the user comments are quite funny:

http://gizmodo.com/5432351/olpc-xo+3-an-impossible-75-fantasy-tablet-i-want-to-believe-in

--
Zeke Krahlin
http://zekeblog.wordpress.com

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