OLPC XO Laptop Faces Production Delay

The non-profit organization One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has announced that its low-cost XO notebook computer for poor children faces a production delay, which would cause a shortage of these computers available in the United States and Canada as part of a holiday giving program.

According to the report, it would now be tough to get those laptops to South America by December, and also meet orders for the recently announced OLPC’s Give 1 Get 1 scheme for people in the United States and Canada, said Mary Lou Jepsen, chief technology officer for the OLPC Foundation.

She said the production dalay is caused by “some last-minute bugs”, which have been resolved. The XO laptop was scheduled to go into production at a Chinese factory in October, but it is now slated to begin by November 12.

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