Quanta Computer Inc. that is subjected to build OLPC laptops has announced a hardware update to these laptops. Now these laptops will be able to run windows XP but nothing comes for free and therefore the price will also increase from $100 to $ 175.

Nicholas Negroponte, the former director of the MIT Media Lab, who now runs the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project revealed these updates. The organization takes $3 per computer and will start the production as the order mark reaches to 3 million. Currently Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Pakistan, Thailand, Nigeria and Libya showed interest in being part of the first wave of OLPC XO computers.

Via: ubergizmo