http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/ Engadget Comments for Europe also getting a taste of OLPC sugar on Monday 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/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/Nov 14th 2008 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/]]>Nov 14th 2008 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/

subliminal message;
"Go out and buy ASRock Mobos now mofo's!!!"]]>Nov 14th 2008 7:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/]]>Nov 14th 2008 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/Nov 14th 2008 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/Nov 14th 2008 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/Nov 14th 2008 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/Nov 14th 2008 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/
Anyways, here (third world country) you can buy a second handed pc for less that $80 (and if you are lucky plus a printer).

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My good friend president Chavez (Keyz in English) has already requested me one million of Magellans for Venezuela. Take That OLPC!

See: http://www.portatilmagalhaes.com/

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Good news on the OLPC give one get one though !]]>Nov 14th 2008 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/Nov 15th 2008 6:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/Nov 14th 2008 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/Nov 14th 2008 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/europe-also-getting-a-taste-of-olpc-sugar-on-monday/€ 313 = 396.5397 U.S. dollars

This buys one for me and one for someone else? So yeah, there ~200USD each.
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In addition to the fairly-rugged-ness, there are some pretty clever design features in OLPC (eg two-mode screen that can work in b/w mode even in bright sunlight), even if the software is a matter of taste.

personally, I have to say I'm not so worried about the quality of the machine - I've seen one, it's cute and nice and seems to work reasonably well. I'm sure if kids in Africa need laptops, these are absolutely fine - they don't need XP (wtf? are they going to run photoshop or something?) or a high-powered CPU or whatever. what I'm not really convinced about is that kids in Africa actually need laptops at all. (And yes I *do* give money to overseas-development charities, this isn't some kind of lame excuse for being a tightwad.) There is some kind of theory that if you get kids across the 'digital divide' everything else (sanitation, drinking water, education, non-corrupt police, the second coming of Jesus Christ) will follow, but I'm just not sure I believe it.

If you want one because it's cool though, go for it - and there's no reason kids in developing countries *shouldn't* have laptops either, can't do any harm. I just don't think it's a panacea.]]>Nov 14th 2008 6:09PM