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Amazon to Sell OLPC in November, Including Dual-Boot XP Model
Posted by Kit Eaton at 11:30 PM on September 5, 2008
From November you'll be able to buy the OLPC in its classic "buy one for the price of two" offer from Amazon, which should be a smoother way of distributing the device than when the OLPC was originally on sale from the source. This new Give 1 Get 1 program will also cover the Windows XP version, now that Microsoft have finalised it, as well as the Sugar OS version. One thing remains unknown: pricing. The previous G1G1 program went to US residents for US$398, but maybe this time it'll be a little closer to the fabled US$100 price tag. [Electronista and BBC]
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henhen
Posted 11:59 PM 5/9/08
they're too late...after the eeepc and all the others at sub 400$ tags....this laptop is already a dinosaur based on its specs and price.
sure i understand they send one to a poor kid and everything ..which is great...
but there's a large segment of the population who will say will want to buy a 'netbook' type computer and will reject this one because there are soooo many better ones out there....
...this of course will hurt the olpc 'buy one send one' plan thing
henhen
ILoveToast
Posted 11:54 PM 5/9/08
Might be perfect for the kids.
ILoveToast
Dooosh
Posted 11:35 PM 5/9/08
looks to "Leap into Learning" for me...
Dooosh
M.O.D.O.K.
Posted 12:10 AM 6/9/08
I hope these boot faster. But with Windows XP, I am doubting it.
Mine runs the default OS and it takes more than a minute to boot which is why I stopped using it. (The battery life is bad. So I don't leave it on sleep).
M.O.D.O.K.
Git Em SteveDave is starlost
Posted 12:34 AM 6/9/08
@M.O.D.O.K.: Have you gone up to the newer OS's? The last one I tried actually had pretty good battery life vs. the original OS. I still have to spend a day with mine as I have ignored it for a few months.
Git Em SteveDave is starlost
HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak
Posted 3:02 AM 6/9/08
I wonder how these things will run the Ubuntu Netbook Remix...
HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak
skierpage
Posted 7:48 AM 6/9/08
If you have an XO, fill in the form a Developer key now (takes 24 hours). Then you can try the release 8.2 candidate builds (with lots of improvements), and also boot other desktop Linux images from USB.
skierpage
skierpage
Posted 8:08 AM 6/9/08
@henhen: Of course there are better conventional laptops for conventional work. The OLPC hardware and software is intended for children sharing educational activities in and out of school. "One Laptop Per Child" is a meaningful encapsulation of the intended market. Hence mesh networking, rugged fanless design, the child-sized keyboard, the Sugar UI's focus on collaboration in groups, the irrelevance of Windows compatibility and an Office suite etc., etc.
I imagine the last thing that countries wrestling with 100,000+ laptop deployments want is a mix of regular XO-1s and a XO-9 2008+ model that matches the specs of the latest EeePC 9375 whatever.
skierpage
skierpage
Posted 7:51 AM 6/9/08
@skierpage: I meant "fill in the form on your XO for a Developer Key now".
skierpage
Shadowlayer
Posted 1:04 PM 6/9/08
If they sell it for less than 200 bucks I'm getting one.
Shadowlayer
jrghoull
Posted 2:32 AM 7/9/08
@henhen:
it seems to me that the EEEs have gone up, not down in pricing...am i wrong?
i have no idea if it will be cheaper this time around...all i know is that on olpcnews there was something about an XO 1.5 which will have the same specs but slightly different parts which will somehow make it so that it is a bit cheaper to produce.
jrghoull