http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/ Engadget Comments for Windows XP tested on the OLPC XO, as slow as you'd expect 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/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/
Somebody please make it stop. Remove its twisted, awful green visage from my sight.]]>Aug 6th 2008 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/(1) How it looks
(2) Will it make you cooler?
(3) Will it blend?
(4) Functionality]]>Aug 6th 2008 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/(6) Profit!]]>Aug 6th 2008 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/
And just because it was designed for the poor, doesn't mean it has to be absurdly hideous.]]>Aug 6th 2008 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/
But then again I don't care for the grey/ black-with-silver-accents that most sheep think is business-like or 'smart'.

I like a laptop to be seen in the sun, to not cook in the sun from the dark colours, to not blind me with bling, and if it can act as a tablet like this, sure... I'll take that, too. Battery life and great reception with those antennas... yep, that too.

Well-sealed from dust and liquids other annoyances... robust from drops.. yep, will take that too. Windows XP.... maybe I'll pass on that.

The keyboard they had problems with in the past... maybe I'll pass on that too. But I love the design AND the colours in general. IMO, well-chosen for a variety of indoor and outdoor uses.]]>Aug 6th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/
1) It appeals to younger kids, especially those in third-world countries who haven't seen much technology in their lives. What would they prefer: a dull and gray laptop or one that's bright and colorful

2) They wanted the design to be distinct and recognizable in the states so if you see an adult with one, you know they shouldn't have it.]]>Aug 6th 2008 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/
Meaning that the machines power is irrelivant as all of the hard computation is done on the server side. Would make a great pitch for a small school.]]>Aug 6th 2008 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/
Oh, sorry... I thought this was one of them "defend Microsoft" threads.]]>Aug 6th 2008 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/
C'mon, OLPC needs to take baby steps with this... put in a less demanding OS (I can't believe I said that about XP)]]>Aug 6th 2008 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/
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I'm grasping for straws.]]>Aug 6th 2008 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/
*gasp*]]>Aug 6th 2008 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/
http://winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm]]>Aug 6th 2008 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/
Those kids are getting cheated. Substandard notebook barely capable of running itself let alone any programs.

It might be "nice" and all but im sure these multi billion dollar multinational corporations could of been a little more charitable to the cause.
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Anyway, the computer with the standard Sugar OS is just fine, in my opinion. I have been using it as my main computer for two months now. Of course you'd want something better, but you deal with what you got.]]>Aug 6th 2008 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/
I suppose the simplest shell and UI possible would be one involving a row of toggle switches and a pushbutton, and that would leave it closest to Linux. But somehow I think that's not what you meant.

And as for the notion that any "real" computer interface must be a typically WIMP interface, I call hogwash! The way to avoid them being confused is to ensure they understand what's going on at a deeper level; one of the best ways to ensure that is to have them perform equivalent tasks through different interfaces, which helps them distinguish a task from a sequence of interface actions. While some will just learn three sequences, others will get it, understand what they're making the computer do, and innately grasp the notion of abstraction in a computing context. They'll be writing the software you use 20 years from now.]]>Aug 6th 2008 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/
This device was designed from the ground up to run Sugar.

MS wanted this distro opportunity so badly, but now that they have it, I wonder how they feel knowing that they're somewhere they don't belong?]]>Aug 6th 2008 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/
Even if one could claim it's best to associate the kids with the popular OS, don't they realize the experience will be the same regardless of the OS? A word processor is a word processor, and internet is internet.]]>Aug 6th 2008 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/Aug 6th 2008 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/06/windows-xp-tested-on-the-olpc-xo-as-slow-as-youd-expect/
If not Sugar, I think this was certainly a job for Ubuntuman! That with Open Office and all the fine Linux software was the way to go.

Score another victory for the MS Empire and another set back for poor kids.

Redmond never wanted this product to succeed anyway. What better way to destroy it than by dumping the poor little guy in Windows cement overshoes.

OLPC XO: "Nick, I coulda been a contender—"

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