One Laptop Per Child Project Nears Completion

"With a 500-unit field test ready to begin in September, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program has announced that the much-anticipated, now-$140 laptop will be called Children's Machine 1 (and) features a 400mhz AMD Geode processor (the original prototypes had a 366mhz processor), 128MB of DRAM, built-in wireless support, and 512MB of flash memory for internal storage... an SD card slot, microphone and speaker jacks (potentially for rumored VoIP support), and a digital camera capable of capturing video and still images... The display will feature 1200x900 resolution... (have) approximately one-seventh of the power consumption, one-third of the price, sunlight readability, and room-light readability with the backlight off." /arstechnica.com/