Comments | solknight: One Laptop Per Child

solknight

One Laptop Per Child

Oct 30, 2007 21:37

We just got a new contractor in at work to help me on a virtualization project, and it turns out he's the president of the Silicon Valley Linux Users' Group. Apparently you get some perks with the title, since he brought an OLPC in to work today. It's really tiny and extremely cool. He was showing off the apps and the programming tools. I was a ( Read more... )

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angry_american October 31 2007, 05:57:55 UTC

Featured in newsweek as one of the real ways to help the world.

A computer that runs on basically thin-air is dreamy. It still isn't at the right price, though. It is approaching the game console level, so that is promising.

-FW

solknight October 31 2007, 20:14:14 UTC

Well it's actually about $200, I think, but they're not selling them directly to consumers at that price. Their main market is governments and charities, I believe. Maybe someday they'll adapt it to the consumer market and make it available for the actual price, but I don't know if that's really part of their plan.

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solknight October 31 2007, 20:15:24 UTC

Well the purchase plan was actually an afterthought. Originally, they weren't going to sell them individually at all. They realized that they were getting more interest from the consumer market than from governments, though, so they changed their approach a little. I think it's still mostly to generate interest, though.

sionnan October 31 2007, 14:53:15 UTC

That is pretty cool. I hear those things are neigh invulnerable. wicked awesome. Did he get to donate one, or is he just a bastard that got one free, or something?

solknight October 31 2007, 20:15:59 UTC

Google gave it to him for free. I think it's a prototype. It's not being sold yet.

sionnan November 2 2007, 02:38:04 UTC

So, he cheated some kid out of a laptop. Didn't even pay?
Fucker.

solknight November 2 2007, 04:00:49 UTC

Well, they might make him give it back later. I don't know.

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