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My OLPC XO came today

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Still no OLPC at my door step - and I ordered it on Nov 12 - no laptop XO for christmas

December 24, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterWilson

Wilson,

My condolences.

Hope your Christmas is a nice one regardless.

All the best,

Doug

December 24, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterDoug Johnson

You must live in a safe neighbourhood!

I only saw the email from OLPC today (Jan 9) which was sent on Jan 6. Followed the tracking no. to discover it was delivered on Jan 3.

New year but no new XO laptop, this is what happens when you live in LA.

January 8, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAlan Wong

Hi Alan,

Our neighborhood is safe, but often the packages are just buried under a snowdrift here in Minnesota.

Sorry to hear about your theft. Better luck next time!

Doug

January 9, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterDoug Johnson

My bad, the delivery address was slightly wrong! Went to the neighbours who were about to send it back to OLPC that day so managed to intercept it before it got returned!

Now all I need to do is figure out how to use it!

February 7, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAlan Wong

Got the little green machine finally! Some of my initial impressions below:-

- Packaging obviously would be spartan so it met expectations there.

- Boot up time is slow compared to OS X but comparable to Linux or WinXP.

- Heavier than I had thought it would be from the photos!

- Very stable, ie good low center of gravity

- Main complaint is the lack of documentation, of course there is online help but this reminds me of Linux. Althought that might work for Linux it'll be hard for non-IT savy people in the developed world (who are the target for this machine) to figure it out

- For example, it took me quite awhile to figure out how to update my machine so that I can use my WPA2 network. I had to unprotect my network so that I could update my OLPC, then resecured my network and managed to connect, but for some reason now cannot reconnect!

- Keyboard takes some getting used to but I can see that it'll be very hardy! Hope the lettering will not fade.....

- I can see some mesh networks around but it looks like they don't want me to connect to them. As reported elsewhere the OLPC is able to see many more wireless connections than normal laptops.

- Haven't really had time to test the apps except Turtle and Measure. Again, hard to figure out how to use them w/o proper documentation.

- Ditto on the connections (USB, etc), haven't really had the chance to test them.

Summary, an interesting experiment but not sure if (for me) it will really be useful.

February 19, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAlan Wong

I won an XO-1 on Sat 2/23/08 at the http://penguinsunbound.org Linux group meeting in St Paul. It was donated by someone who got it thru the g1g1 offer. I intend to show it around a lot. Showed a few folks at the library today. I even showed some pictures (that I'd taken this morning) at an inspections court hearing today. Are there plans to get multiple XO's (and their owners :) together to see what a connected group look like? I've used my XO on the Minneapolis Wireless system (roaming) several places including inside my stucco house.
Fred: fholson at cohousing dot org

February 25, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterFred Olson

Should have put this at the end of the last post:
Fred www.fholson.cohousing.org

February 25, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterFred Olson

My 18 month old son has managed to "cut" one of the keys out the of the keyboard using a pen! Anyone know where I can get a replacement keyboard "skin"?

March 24, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAlan Wong

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