Welcome to the Jungle? Amazon to sell G1G1 v2 Laptops
Posted in Product Review by admin on September 9th, 2008 On Thursday it was announced that Amazon will be selling the G1G1 v2 laptop by late November.
And to be honest, that’s all anyone knows. The major question of what is the price? Remains unanswered, but most relevant is the announcement those laptops available from Amazon will be using Sugar, and there will be no dual boot or Windows XP version.
The details came out in an announcement posted to wiki.laptop.org by OLPC’s (one laptop per child) Product Manager Kim Quirk on Saturday:
“As it has been reported, One Laptop per Child will sell its XO Laptop on Amazon.com in late 2008 as part of a global ‘Give One, Get One’ (G1,G1) program. Although the first iteration of the ‘G1,G1′ program was extremely successful and sold more then 185,000 laptops, the delivery of the laptops in the USA did not run as smoothly as we anticipated.
“Selling the laptops on Amazon.com will provide us with the resources to process and ship the laptops globally in a timely fashion.
“In addition, contrary to some media reports, it will be a Linux-based XO Laptop that will be offered as part of the global initiative and not a dual-boot machine running both Windows and Linux.”
And that’s you lot I’m afraid, not a great deal of information, but you can expect bits and pieces to emerge in the run up to the product launch, leaving just enough time for the rumour mill to start spinning.
