With so much negative news lately about low-cost manufacturing in China, here’s a bit of good news: Mass production of the XO laptop computer-the so-called $100 laptop designed by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC, Cambridge, MA)-began last month at Quanta Computer Inc.’s factory in Changshu, China.

OLPC是一家非营利组织，由马萨诸塞州理工学院教授Nicholas Negroponte博士于2005年成立，旨在设计，制造和分发负担得起的笔记本电脑，向世界各地的儿童设计负担得起的笔记本电脑。

Quanta Computer is a contract manufacturer of notebook computers, enterprise network systems, home entertainment systems, mobile communication devices, automotive electronics and other electronic products. It’s customers include Hewlett-Packard and Dell. Besides the Changshu facility and its headquarters in Taiwan, the company has factories in Taipei and Shanghai, China.

The XO is housed in a dirt- and moisture-resistant enclosure 242 millimeters wide, 228 millimeters long, and 32 millimeters tall. The Linux-based laptop has a 500-megahertz processor, 256 megabytes of DRAM, and 1 gigabyte of flash memory. It does not have a hard disk, but it does have three USB ports and SD-card slot for expansion.

The laptop’s pivoting, LCD display has two modes of operation: a full-color, transmissive DVD mode for viewing indoors and a high-resolution black-and-white mode for viewing outdoors in sunlight. Integrated peripherals include a keyboard, game pad, touch pad, stereo speakers and a color video camera. With a nickel-metal-hydride battery, it weighs just under 3.5 pounds.

连接ing to the Internet will be possible through mesh networking, and each XO will be able to talk with nearby XOs in an ad hoc local area network.

该机器的设计非常节能，可以由太阳能，手动曲柄或脚踏板供电。

OLPC创建了XO笔记本电脑作为儿童机器，设计用于“学习”。该组织将计算机视为释放儿童巨大潜力的工具。Negroponte说，将这种超低成本，强大，坚固耐用的笔记本电脑放在他们的手中。

前500万至1500万个单位将运送到中国，巴西，印度，阿根廷，埃及，尼日利亚和泰国。

XO是来自世界各地的一些非常有才华和有远见的设计，制造和软件工程师的产品，我为他们的努力表示赞赏。

有关每个儿童项目一台笔记本电脑的更多信息，并了解如何将XO笔记本电脑发送到有需要的孩子点击hereorhere。