http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/ Engadget Comments for OLPC gets a name: the CM1, or Children's Machine http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 24th 2006 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 24th 2006 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 24th 2006 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 24th 2006 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 24th 2006 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 24th 2006 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 24th 2006 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 24th 2006 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/
You can cite "Internet economy" or whatever BS you want, but most of the people in the countries that the computer is aimed at are illiterate and quite literally dying for food and/or uncontaminated water!

Get away from the front of your computer screen and go to a church and see what their Missions are sending overseas.]]>Aug 24th 2006 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 24th 2006 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 24th 2006 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/
Buy Info: http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/price/buying_a_olpc_laptop.html]]>Aug 24th 2006 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 24th 2006 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/
on a plane?]]>Aug 24th 2006 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 24th 2006 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/
Probably the same in favelas and other deprived communities all over the world.

I think this is one of the great projects that will truly improve people's lives and it is every bit as worthy as the church and its missions. It's not like the church has nothing to answer for anyway, Mark, their hardline stance on condoms is pretty much orphaning millions of babies.

It is a fact that there are hundreds of millions of children around the world that have no access to a classroom or a library. This new device helps to educate a new generation. It will help rural communities that quite often mistrust each other to start talking to one another. It will give people without a voice an audience.

I wish it every luck in the world. You might not have guessed it, but I'm a big fan of this project.]]>Aug 24th 2006 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/
Nick has a point, too. This is a great cause, don't get me wrong, but a) the computers are extremely out-of-date, and b) people need food, water, clothing, and education before a computer.

But who am I to decide?]]>Aug 24th 2006 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/
And these computers are not necessarily going to less developed countries (who really need help in other areas) but ones that have sound infrastructures but not enough resources to say, pull off something similar to the Maine Laptop Project (which was highly successful, enough to make other states follow suit).]]>Aug 24th 2006 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/
This laptop would be perfect for me - if I want more processing power I can use a desktop - I need something that's quiet, doesn't overheat (or explode) and is nice and portable but I can't afford anything I like. The price is right and I actually like what they look like...

If it went for $150 I'd buy one.]]>Aug 24th 2006 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/most of the people in the countries that the computer is aimed at are illiterate

The most recent Engadget article suggested that countries that were interested in the CM1 included Argentina, Nigeria, Brazil, and Thailand. Their literacy rates are 97.2% 66.8%, 88.4% and 92.6%. Plenty literate to make use of the CM1. And perhaps the CM1 would actually encourage greater literacy. Certainly, anything that affordably supports and encourages education is a good thing for any country.

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I'd buy 6 of these just for the screens and combine them somehow to make a big, 3600x1800 display or something for like $500.]]>Aug 24th 2006 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 24th 2006 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/
I'd pay $250 for two and send one to a child.]]>Aug 24th 2006 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 24th 2006 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 24th 2006 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/
I know in the grand scheme of things, that this may not go as far in the longterm because you still need to keep supplying more money for education resources, but it makes sense to me (and possibly only me) to use that initial proposed investment to fund real improvements in whatever way possible rather than trying to solve the worlds problems with more computers.]]>Aug 26th 2006 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 25th 2006 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/
Let's hope the audience knows sign language...::wink::

On a more serious note: imagine...putting millions of laptops into the hands of the next generation of imaginative little minds, creating an entire generation of 3rd-world l33t haxors!!!1!]]>Aug 25th 2006 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 25th 2006 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Aug 25th 2006 8:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Sep 21st 2007 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/olpc-gets-a-name-the-cm1-or-childrens-machine/Sep 21st 2007 7:50PM