Children’s Machine 1 Ready To Ship Out

With a 500-unit field test ready to begin in September, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program has announced that the much-anticipated laptop will be called Children’s Machine 1 (CM1). The Linux-based laptop is a remarkable achievement. Next to the new name some other changes were made. Manufactured by Chinese hardware company Quanta, the rugged, portable computer now features a 400mhz AMD Geode processor (the original prototypes had a 366mhz processor), 128MB of DRAM, built-in wireless support, and 512MB of flash memory for internal storage. Because of these changes, the CM1 will now cost $140 instead of the $100 price point the organisation was aiming on.