The New York Times reviews the OLPC laptop

lucas1985 · Oct 5, 2007

In November, you’ll be able to buy a new laptop that’s spillproof, rainproof, dustproof and drop-proof. It’s fanless, it’s silent and it weighs 3.2 pounds. One battery charge will power six hours of heavy activity, or 24 hours of reading. The laptop has a built-in video camera, microphone, memory-card slot, graphics tablet, game-pad controllers and a screen that rotates into a tablet configuration.
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The truth is, the XO laptop, now in final testing, is absolutely amazing, and in my limited tests, a total kid magnet. Both the hardware and the software exhibit breakthrough after breakthrough — some of them not available on any other laptop, for $400 or $4,000.
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There are also three programming environments of different degrees of sophistication. Incredibly, one keystroke reveals the underlying code of almost any XO program or any Web page. Students can not only study how their favorite programs have been written, but even experiment by making changes. (If they make a mess of things, they can restore the original.)

There’s real brilliance in this emphasis on understanding the computer itself. Many nations in XO’s market have few natural resources, and the global need for information workers grows with every passing day.

Most of the XO’s programs are shareable on the mesh network, which is another ingenious twist. Any time you’re word processing, making music, taking pictures, playing games or reading an e-book, you can click a Share button. Your document shows up next to your icon on the mesh-network map, so that other people can see what you’re doing, or work with you. Teachers can supervise your writing, buddies can collaborate on a document, friends can play you in Connect 4, or someone across the room can add a melody to your drum beat in the music program. You’ve never seen anything like it.
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Impressive stuff

Mrkvonic · Oct 6, 2007

Hello,
I can't read that - I need login credentials...
Mrk

lucas1985 · Oct 6, 2007

Hmmm, it works fine here. I guess that registration is required for USA residents?
Short report at Tech Report
Maybe Bugmenot can help you.

Pedro · Oct 6, 2007

There’s no CD/DVD drive at all, no hard drive and only a 7.5-inch screen. The Linux operating system(...)
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I don't get it. Lucas, no HD?

Pedro · Oct 6, 2007

It has only one gigabyte of storage — all flash memory — with 20 percent of that occupied by the XO’s system software.
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I don't know, pretty much everything else is ok, but this doesn't seem good enough. Thoughts?

Mrkvonic · Oct 6, 2007

lucas1985 said:

Hmmm, it works fine here. I guess that registration is required for USA residents?
Short report at Tech Report
Maybe Bugmenot can help you.
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But I'm not a US citizen ... :;
Mrk

lucas1985 · Oct 6, 2007

Pedro said:

I don't get it. Lucas, no HD?
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Flash-based storage

Pedro said:

I don't know, pretty much everything else is ok, but this doesn't seem good enough. Thoughts?
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A computer (mostly) dedicated to document processing shouldn't require too much disk space. The OS occupies a small size.

lucas1985 · Oct 6, 2007

Mrkvonic said:

But I'm not a US citizen
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A bad guess of my part
Have you tried Bugmenot? Or changing the user agent to Googlebot?

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