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Birmingham Agrees to Buy 15,000 XO Laptops

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The mayor of Birmingham, Alabama has agreed to purchase 15,000 of OLPC's XO laptops. The laptops will be given to children in grades one through eight. This will be the first major sale of XO laptops to a US school system.

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15,000 XO Laptops

ColonelPanik ·
How cool is that? And Alabama? Now that is way cool.

Life is good indeed.
ColonelPanik ·
Okay, I have stated that I am old, truth! Today or tomorrow I get my first Social Security check (deposit?). And last night we ordered two OLPC machines for our grand kids. Also for two other kids somewhere?

This way our grand kids will sit in the living room and be watched! Hope it runs Tux Racer.

Maint.

pcatiprodotnet ·
And, this will really begin to pay off for them in the future... in the form of drastically reduced laptop maintenance expenditure (compared to maintenance of regular PC laptops - a staggering expense forcing many schools to eventually drop their free student laptop programs).

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