I work in education and we received a pair of laptops in my office over a year ago of whatever model they were pushing back then. We were looking at sending these machines to Uganda and in the end decided to scrap the project. The main reason was that the model was so unusable that we could not possibly see any children working with it productively. The interface was too slow, the keyboards were extremely flaky and hard to type on with the rubber coating. The mouse worked only when it wanted to. In the end, we decided that the product was not ready for use and the two XOs or whatever are gathering dust somewhere around our desks.
The idea of the XO or whatnot is great, however, I am generally disappointed by most things coming out of MIT's media lab. This project should be scrapped due to repeated mismanagement and the exodus of viable technical partners. Asus has already gotten closer to the target price point and it doesn't look like the media lab has any surprises left.
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I work in education and we received a pair of laptops in my office over a year ago of whatever model they were pushing back then. We were looking at sending these machines to Uganda and in the end decided to scrap the project. The main reason was that the model was so unusable that we could not possibly see any children working with it productively. The interface was too slow, the keyboards were extremely flaky and hard to type on with the rubber coating. The mouse worked only when it wanted to. In the end, we decided that the product was not ready for use and the two XOs or whatever are gathering dust somewhere around our desks.
The idea of the XO or whatnot is great, however, I am generally disappointed by most things coming out of MIT's media lab. This project should be scrapped due to repeated mismanagement and the exodus of viable technical partners. Asus has already gotten closer to the target price point and it doesn't look like the media lab has any surprises left.