For $400, you get one, a child in a dis-adantaged country gets one. You get a $200 tax deducation and you get 1 year free access to tmobile wifi hotspots which is normally like $19 a month.
Seems like a good deal, especially if you have friends that needs a laptop that can probably survive a beer spill. Oh ya, and it runs a flavor of linux.
The main screen is very simple to navigate and select what you want to do.
Thee is a visual logo interface
estrip works great on it.
It has a fedora backend and can easily be run in vmware if you want to test it out.
You can use it as an ebook reader too. That is not my laptop in the background. I took the picture from
It's too bad they couldn't make it for the original $100. But, I like the incentives that they're giving out to induces us "rich" overprivileged consumers to help out. Still @ $200 that makes it difficult to make it readily available to children in third world countries. I mean $200 is ALOT of money in the third world. Maybe they'll be able to lower production costs once they've been out for a while.
Sounds like a good Christmas gift.
wow, thats really super amazing! if i had some extra cashola id do it. maybe i will....
(e:uncutsaniflush), The sale opened up today.
I have been debating about getting this laptop for a very long time, but a few factors prevent me from taking the leap. The software that I use regularly (SAS) is known to have big issues in Linux. (and of course, my university won't pay for a Linux SAS). I am trying to transiton to R, but my own mediocre programming skills are dragging me down. Learning S Plus is not an easy thing to do, unfortunately. I worry about networking this laptop to the windows one that I currently have. I am not sure that this laptop has enough memory or space to run Windows.
The specs are as follows:
Linux-based, Dual-mode Display (Full-color/Sunlight-readable B&W), 500MHz processor, 128MB DRAM, 500MB Flash Memory, 3 USB ports, SD-card slot, Wireless broadband/LAN, No hard disk.
The whole thing also makes me think about my childhood. I didn't have a computer, not to mention, a laptops till I was in College! What will be the effect on these children who will get the laptop? Would they be hooked on to ridiculous video games instead of healthy games in the sunlight soaked fields? I guess I am just being cynical but this unhealthy obsession with some artificial anti-social games that kids have today is very disturbing to me.
Very cool. I'm glad they have something like that.
I've been following the progress of OLPC since it was just a proposal for a $100 laptop. It's good to see it happening despite the significantly higher price. I find the damn thing fascinating. I've been debating about getting one since last month when I heard that they would be for sale to North American gringos in November.
I am able to surf estrip from it right now using a vmware simulation of it. The browser seems eally good. It also a a visual logo editor, for those of you that remember logo (the turle) from back in the day.
That view makes it look like electronic Battleship