This quote from Mary Lou Jepson, the CTO of OLPC and designer of the amazing, low power, sunlight readable display inside it, shows why the OLPC will change the world while Intel just wanted to sell CPUs.

"Mary Lou Jepsen: Where to start: Classmate is more expensive, consumes 10 times the power, has 1/3 the wifi range, and can't be used outside. Also, the Classmate doesn't use neighboring laptops to extend the reach of the internet via hopping (mesh-networking) like the XO does. So not only is the XO cheaper than the Classmate, the XO requires less infrastructure expenditure for electricity and for internet access. In Peru we can run off on solar during the day and handcrank at night for an additional $25 or so per student – this is a one-time expense – the solar panel and the crank will last 10 or, perhaps, 20 years. Just try running electricity cables up and down the Peruvian Andes for that cost while making sure it's environmentally clean energy. The Classmate isn't as durable as the XO, and its screen is about 30% smaller, the batteries are the type that can explode and only last 1-2 years and can't be removed by the user and harm the environment. The batteries are expensive to replace: $30-40 per replacement. The XO batteries last for 5 years and cost less than $10 to replace. Finally, the XO is the greenest laptop ever made, the Classmate isn't – this matters a great deal when one proposes to put millions of them in the developing world."

The low power, green technology, new batteries, they all are starting a revolution in portable computer technology. The OLPC can run and recharge in incredibly hot environments where a regular PC, price and size don't matter, would not work, and could be dangerous for the Lithium Ion batteries.

OLPC is innovating with software as well, taking us beyond the office software that's loaded on almost every desktop. This is about learning and building the future of computing.