Dear OLPC supporters, The soon to come XO-4 and XO-4 Touch, a laptop/tablet-hybrid, look very appealing. Optically it will not be very different from the XO-1.75. But it has a touch screen (only the XO-4 Touch of course) and is designed around a Marvell chip. For those of you who like to dig into the details, here you'll find the specifications:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-4_Touch It seems to me that the devices can be of great interest for users in Switzerland, too. Furthermore, in the past we were often asked to organize a possibility to buy XO devices in our country. Therefore we think of organizing a bulk order, like many of our colleagues in other countries already have practiced with the XO-1. Today we don't know if and when the XO-4 and XO-4 Touch will be orderable. Nor do we know neither the exact price nor the conditions. We believe a shipping in the second semester of 2013 and a price around 250 Swiss Francs (incl. all costs as shipping and customs) for the XO-4 Touch as realistic, the XO-4 might cost a little less. We'd like to add a standard donation of CHF 25 to every ordered device, since we plan to support the Najude Pioneer School in Nigeria with 20 XO-4. This call is non-committal. At this stage, we would only like to have an idea, whether we can collect 100 orders for the XO-4 or/and the XO-4 Touch, since this has been the lower limit for orders in the past. So that we are already in our starting blocks, as soon as the device is mass-produced. Please note: The devices will most probably be contain an US-American keyboard (x and z in reverse). If you're interested for one of the devices, please add your information into the following spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgX-uguIz4vsdFFIenZmekRWaVBYaGVGSFZFOFF6M2c Thanks for your ongoing interest and your support. Urs Lerch Chairman of OLPC Switzerland _______________________________________________ OLPC-ch mailing list OLPC-ch@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-ch http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Switzerland