http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/ Engadget Comments for OLPC XO goes into mass production http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/
http://www.theblurgh.com]]>Nov 6th 2007 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/I'm not going to sugar coat an answer for a question like that here.
I'm not sure how anyone who reads engadget still doesn't grasp the concept of the OLPC.

It doesn't matter how cheap "other" laptops get. Price is merely half (if that) of what the XO is about. You really don't have to study the ins and outs of XO to understand what makes this different from "other" laptops. Again I'll list some of the headlines.

Hand powered
Extremely low power consumtion
Mesh networking even when pc is not on
Touch screen with tablet mode
Durable estimated lifetime of five years in harsh eviroments
Open source
Learning friendly
etc...
Seriously information about this is not hard to come by. In the time it takes to post a question you could have learned your answer in 3 clicks. ]]>Nov 6th 2007 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/Nov 7th 2007 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/Nov 6th 2007 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/Nov 6th 2007 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/Nov 6th 2007 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/
If you find a discussion like this below you, please take the high road and don't respond.]]>Nov 6th 2007 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/So I'd like to think by correcting the misconceptions here there'll be less misconceptions to the public at large.

Again while cost plays part of a large roll of the XO you have to keep in mind that the features are vastly different than an ordinary laptop and therefor they shouldn't be compared on the cost aspect as if they were the same.

As far as the OS goes. Seeing as these are primarily education based laptops, I'm not aware of any setbacks that come from learning on a windows alternative when you have little to no experience with computers period. I don't believe the learning curve would be much bigger going from Sugar to Windows as opposed to nothing to Windows.]]>Nov 6th 2007 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/Nov 6th 2007 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/
Why doesn't engadget just create a blog for the OLPC?
It could be just like Engadget Mobile, but with daily OLPC news!]]>Nov 6th 2007 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/Nov 6th 2007 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/olpc-xo-goes-into-mass-production/Nov 7th 2007 11:42AM