http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/ Engadget Comments for Peru receives first Windows based OLPC XO laptops 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/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 17th 2008 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/How can we bring these kids into the international community and the educational resource of the internet if we give them computers that can't run Crysis?

[ the low rank button is up and to the right - come on and hit me !]]]>Sep 17th 2008 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/have you even played Crysis at least.]]>Sep 18th 2008 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/
Why YES I HAVE !

The Demo !!!!]]>Sep 18th 2008 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 17th 2008 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 17th 2008 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 18th 2008 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 17th 2008 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 18th 2008 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/
besides, now these peruvean kids can get their game on! it won't be long now till they get game consoles and i'm getting cursed at in spanish on XBL.]]>Sep 18th 2008 12:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/

Maybe it's time to just go the netbook route. I mean, the simple fact that you can still get netbooks (EeePC ones with 7" screens and a 4 GB of SSD) for around $200 or $250 in our consumer world means that the developing world could get the same thing for around $150 each.

These OLPC XO laptops just look really poor, and there's not much on offer.
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Yeah. Right.]]>Sep 17th 2008 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/

look how they're holding them, like they're not even computers... great handshake and diplomacy and all, but how about you hold the suckers up and let people know they actually power on?]]>Sep 18th 2008 12:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/
by the way, props to Microsoft on this; those cost what, like $300? Xp Pro and MS office cost a hell of a lot more than that, so they really are doing their part to get the OLs out their with useful software.]]>Sep 18th 2008 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/nicholas_negroponte_on_one_laptop_per_child.html]]>Sep 18th 2008 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 18th 2008 2:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/
@ B.C.
Thank you for posting the video.

The computer is suppose to look bad. The guy in the video makes the comparison to a US postal truck. There are thousands of postal trucks in the US and they don't get stolen because nobody wants them. Hence, these computers look "bad" so there is no after mark (he called it a grey market), therefore nobody will steal them because they cannot be resold.

I have just been enlightened.

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You're so stupid, in Peru these would cost around 1000 USD...]]>Sep 18th 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/
I am holding, in my hands, right this second, an OLPC XO laptop. Frankly the thing is amazing. My four year old thinks it is the best thing he has ever seen. It has features that would be cool on a consumer laptop.

Mine has Sugar on it. Also, mine is "last year's" -- meaning it is a mid-development model, not quite fully developed. But pretty darn close.

I don't see any way that putting Windows XP on this could really improve the thing. The sugar interface is targeted towards learning. Windows XP is targeted towards businesses and consumers. Really, WinXP is antithetical to the purpose and goals of the OLPC project. ANY commercial software company's interests are, really. But I digress.]]>Oct 10th 2008 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 17th 2008 11:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 17th 2008 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 17th 2008 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 18th 2008 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 22nd 2008 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/

and I'm a MAC....

]]>Sep 18th 2008 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 18th 2008 1:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 18th 2008 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 18th 2008 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 18th 2008 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 18th 2008 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 18th 2008 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 18th 2008 1:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 18th 2008 1:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/I reject the entire idea of OLPC.
How can we bring these kids into the international community and the educational resource of the internet if we give them computers that can't run Crysis?"

Only reson why flashpoint was funny is because it was first ...but on a more serious note..ARE these computers being given to or bought for these kids?.. And if so who is fitting the bill? And how come OUR lower income (or poor people if you must ) do not recieve these FIRST..and then the rest of the world later,,,,,? just asking ..figured at least 1 of you brainiacs would knoe..
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Of course this will open a Pandora box. Let's be sincere, not everything internet has is good for kids, but in any case they will have much more sources than before to develop and shape their ideas.

and, I AM PERUVIAN!!! :o)
]]>Sep 18th 2008 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/This is so unreal it makes my head hurt. I want to caption that picture with "I'm stupid." "No, I'm stupid." "Well, I'm stupider than you." "No, I'M stupider!!"
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Arriba Peru!]]>Sep 18th 2008 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 18th 2008 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/Sep 19th 2008 2:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/peru-receives-first-windows-based-olpc-xo-laptops/
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