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Well, last year OLPC released the $200 laptop. It is cheap, but not yet their target, isn’t it? However, OLPC stated that their next target is to reach the $75 computer and next, well, the…$20 computer. Speaking of cheap laptops…

I don’t know how they will reach this target, really, what can they remove from those computers to make them cost $20? What could they possibly remove? We had a target here, the 5000 Euro car, for which, personally I have paid 10200 Euro…pretty far away, isn’t it? But the target sounds good and people keep an eye on XO laptop.

I know that Intel and other big companies joined forces to reach the target. I don’t know how much they actually believe in this, but sounds good and it is a good marketing thing to do, getting involved in educational projects with such heavenly targets…

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Because lately I have got more and more interested in this business with cheap laptops, I said it would be interesting to bring to your attention the fact that Microsoft works on finalizing a version of Windows XP for the One Laptop Per Child movement. It is very interesting that Microsoft got interested in this, I wonder how much it is really interest and how much just PR. Or worse, fear of not losing ground in front of competitors already involved in this business.

The General Manager of Marketing and Communication from Microsoft announced that:

“Windows on the XO looks like it is on track for availability in these types of national educational PC deals in September. We still have no plans to make Windows available for individuals who bought an XO in the Give 1 Get 1 program though.”

Personally I find it to be good even if after the announcement that Microsoft will provide Windows XP for these cheap laptops shook the foundations of OLPC and a few officials decided to resign. Come on, people, we’re speaking about a choice for an operating system, not about rocket science or aircraft parts, OK? I like Linux, I am a Windows user mostly, but not a big fan of it, but having more options is always a good thing and we should never let such a power in the hands of only one organization. Linux is good, but who says that once Linux has the save coverage as Windows it won’t become commercial, hacked and buggy?

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Seems today everything is possible, even a quad-core chip for laptops. I think this will be very well received by gamers all over the world, because for them, any speed increase counts a lot.

“You’ll see gaming machines and (mobile) workstations with more compute power than servers two years ago,” Eden said.

That’s not a bad thing, we all go forward and laptop markets goes forward too producing more and more power for those tiny and beautoful notebooks. I don’t know if this will help or not the trend with “cheap laptops”, but I don’t think this was their goal. Power is the keyword here, right?

You can read more about it on cnet here.

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