http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/ Engadget Comments for Amazon's Give 1, Get 1 OLPC XO program now live 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/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 3:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/
...for like $175.]]>Nov 17th 2008 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 22nd 2008 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 4:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 4:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/
Apparently they believe the marginal utility of the laptop and one dollar is about equal to said intrinsic value.

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Anyone who lacks the "generosity" to pay $1 extra for the privilege is unlikely to donate anyway.]]>Nov 17th 2008 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 4:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 4:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 4:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/
You, my friend, are made of 100% authentic win.

...although there are quicker ways to become a donor....with the stroke of a proverbial wand....but let's not talk about that...yours is better.]]>Nov 17th 2008 4:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/
I'm not talking about people being charitable here, what I mean is that if someone wants to donate some laptops, they will donate some laptops. If someone wants a low end PC and is trying to save money, they will spend it on an Eee PC not some third world POS with a geode processor.
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You call it a terrible laptop, but I don't see any Eees with daylight readable 1200x900 screens, LiFePO batteries, water resistance, or a $200 price tag.]]>Nov 17th 2008 4:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/
You don't want to donate, go ahead and don't.

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Whats more, the G1G1 is an OLPC program, and not a Microsoft program. The gives and the gets are all Sugar. Meaning, participating in G1G1 supports and encourages Linux on the XO.

Ignore the FUD, it's about the children.]]>Nov 17th 2008 5:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/
Negroponte commit a classic mistake to say "if it is good for me, then it will be good for them", omitting to do a real market study (to have a subscription to Natgeo is not enough), instead he tried to sell a notebook for a unknown market. Truly, a rural/countryside town usually don't need or care about to have or not a computer, this is valid not just for a third world country also for any country.

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Why Give a Laptop?
Why give a laptop to a child who has no running water? If you replace the word "laptop" with "education" the answer becomes clear. You don't wait to educate until all other challenges are resolved. You educate at the same time because it's such an important part of all the other solutions.

The Children
Currently, there are XO laptops in over 30 countries from India to Mongolia, and everywhere it goes, the results are the same. The laptops help children build on their active interest in the world around them to engage with powerful ideas. When the laptops arrive school attendance goes up, teachers download lesson plans from the web and kids begin teaching each other how to use the machine. With the XO, kids actually learn how to learn.]]>Nov 17th 2008 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 5:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/
Arguably, the laptop (aka education) donations are going to do far more to create the long lasting change their society/culture/whatever needs to progress.

Lets put it this way.....we've been trying the "food" thing for awhile and from a distance, it doesn't seem to make their lives much better (besides maybe keeping them alive). Maybe the computer thing will. It's Long term vs. Short term thinking. Neither one is necessarily better than the other. Perhaps together they will one day form like Voltron and defeat the Rancor of starvation and the Mumm-Ra of 3rd world oppression.]]>Nov 17th 2008 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/
This describes the difference betwee donating food and donating education.]]>Nov 19th 2008 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/
2. Education is the key to a better life in your country why wouldn't that be the case in other countries. ]]>Nov 17th 2008 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/
In the heart or in the head?]]>Nov 17th 2008 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/
Chris
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I would be fine if they stated it was an extra "donation." However, it is just an extra $1.00 tacked on to the price with no explanation? I'd rather buy 2 separately and donate an extra dollar. It might be that some would rather buy separately and keep the extra buck. Either way, I don't buy anything at the store where the "bundled" price is higher than buying the items "unbundled." Why do you?]]>Nov 17th 2008 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/
$199 donation gets a laptop for some kid somewhere. (Hopefully an honest kid who will use his skills to crack DRM, not to steal your identity, but I digress...)

$200 buys a laptop for you.

However, $200 purchases of a privately-owned laptop may only be made in conjunction with, and simultaneous to, corresponding donations for laptops for kids. (And through some miracle, you don't have to file any paperwork to do it.)

If that still doesn't make sense, seems inefficient, or just plain micromanaged, imagine this is a government program. NOW it all makes sense, yes? (Except that bit about no paperwork; I'm betting that miracle came from Amazon, not OLPC.)]]>Nov 17th 2008 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.mmc205usa.co.cc/ this it my site. Awesome! This is going to be my Christmas wishlist. I've been blessed with access to great technology, and my hope is for all the children of the world to have the same.
If enyone interrest in higth end product it look like grest info site.
THANK]]>Nov 17th 2008 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/Nov 17th 2008 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/amazons-give-1-get-1-olpc-xo-program-now-live/
Add in mesh networking and the collaboration and sharing that enables and suddenly these little things become real stars.

And all of you who quibble over its looks forget the target market is NOT tech-addled Western adults. Hell, it's not aimed at Westerners at all: remember how hard Negroponte argued against selling it here? It was only financial realities that forced him to go the G1G1 way, at all. So, yeah, compare it unfavorably to an eee all you want, it's not the comparison the targeted audience would/will be making. ]]>Nov 17th 2008 9:24AM