OLPC XO Laptop
physical object
Identifier
2025.10.2
Description
This laptop was made by the non profit, OLPC. The XO laptop was developed by Nicholas Negroponte, a co founder of MIT's Media Lab. These laptops used flash memory instead of hard disk drives and ran off of Linux. The founders of this laptop were offered to use the MacOS by Steve Jobs but instead they used Linux as they wanted an open source operating system.
Related Term
Laptop Computers (is described by)
