Nicholas Negroponte unveiled yesterday at One Laptop Per Child Foundation media event the 2nd generation laptop. The foundation plans to release the 2nd-generation device by 2010. Unlike its predecessor, the XO laptop, the new addition would feature two 16:9 LCD screens and would fold-up like an e-book device.

The new laptop would cost $75, which is very encouraging regarding the $188 price for XO model. The low pricing would be a result of using screens built for DVD players: “The reason you can have the audacity to do this is that the 16:9 displays on DVD players are so inexpensive that to anticipate them costing $20 each is not out of the question,” explained Negroponte.

The XO 2.0 was designed by the hardware design firm Pixel Qi. The double-screened device is smaller than XO laptop, that being an advantage for the children and consumes only 1 watt. OLPC has announced to launch a new version of the XO model (XO 1.5) that would have a price tag around $100.

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It’s a certain thing that 2008 will be the year of ultraportables and Rock’s new Pegasus 210 is just a new addition to the market. It has a lot of Intel UMPC internals, runs on a 800MHz A110 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 80GB 1.8-inch HDD, Bluetooth and 802.11n WiFi. The 12-inch ultraportable from Rock weighs 2.2 pound and also packs a 4-in-1 card reader and a PCMCIA slot. The price is roughly $1,580 and remember there’s no disc drive.

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Rumors regarding the new Windows XP powered Eee PC 4G are now over. The “new” mini-laptop which has the exact hardware items inside, is going to be available from April 9th for $399 on BestBuy. LaptopMag got their hands on it a few weeks before the official sale and they liked it. It boots Windows XP Home, pretty fast in 40 seconds.

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It’s just recently that new info about Intel’s designed for education notebook surfaced. This is how the Eco PC (or the Classmate PC) is going to look. So far it’s rumored to be a 10-inch laptop with a 9-inch display that weighs a little under 3 pounds and will sell for sub-$400. It’s supposed to run on a 900MHz Celeron processors, with 512MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, built-in WiFi and Ethernet. It has decent specs for a $400 laptop.

I am sure Intel is trying to take on the OLPC, Asus` Eee PC or any other Eee PC rivals like HP’s 2133 UMPC. We’ll probably have to wait for the official release before we’re certain of what’s inside and can give a verdict. Meanwhile see more photos.

For a full gallery with the Eco PC please see mgminthu’s photos on Flickr.

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The new HP dv3000 has been announced for Asia. It’s a redesigned version of the dv2000 they’ve released 2 years ago and since it’s cool to have a 13.3-inch display this is what you get. It has pretty interesting specs with a 2.5GHz T9300 Penryn Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM, GeForce Go 8400M graphics that outputs HDMI or a 160GB hard drive. Of course there are others like a VGA webcam, a dual layer burner and a combo USB / eSATA port.

The price is $1,399, the date is May and the continent is Asia. Too bad for the rest of us.

Cnet-Asia

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