Tempting

[neoteny]

Ok, I'm sorely tempted to get one of these...

http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/give-one-get-one.php

Comments

[hober]

Yeah, same here.

[boffo]

I haven't paid too much attention to the OLPC. For $400, is it the sort of thing my mom should get?

[neoteny]

In a few revisions I think it could be very suitable as a cheap and rugged wireless "information appliance". That's assuming they're willing to look away from their "grand vision" tunnel vision and consider developing it as a US product, which I don't think they are. Someone else could pick up the platform and run with it, though.

As it stands I think it's suitable in three contexts:

-as a hobbyist's toy
-as a collector's item
-for a child (preferably in a classroom with other XO laptops)

i'd totally get one

[cyaneyed]

for the UI if nothing else.

its a little different, all pictures, no text to teach kids who don't know how to read that their buddys have shown up.

its a neat system.