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It’s been hit by a few delays, but the OLPC XO has finally gone into mass production. According to Mass High Tech, that long-awaited event officially got underway yesterday morning at Quanta Computer’s brand new manufacturing facility in Changshu, China, which is just a two-hour jaunt northwest of Shanghai (in case anyone’s planning on doing some sight-seeing). While that’s a little later than the original estimate of October that Quanta gave when it first began to gear up for production way back in July, it’s actually a few days earlier than the company’s most recent indication of a start date, which it had pegged as November 12th just last month. Now, let’s just hope this begins the road down to something closer to that mythical $100 price tag.

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