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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[The HAVE to get that thing to run Android...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[CraigJ]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 4:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[Those are not the Androids they are looking for.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Schweppes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 4:26PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yeah, but can you play Crysis on it?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sea Urchin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 7:15PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[Better make sure there's a Blu-ray drive if you want the poor kids to enjoy that HD video.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[luzzio]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 4:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[Dumb or ignorant, which one is it?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kingu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 10:12PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[You, both. Him, funny.<br><br>It was a joke, lighten up. A BD drive in a computer that's supposed to cost the same price as it, that's a funny thought.<br><br>You seem to have some serious anti-blu-ray issues if you can't take a joke.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Blaine]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 19th 2009 2:11AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[So, a touchscreen (on which they would presumably type) would make the product better how?  People need to get over the fad of everything being touch-screen.  Sure TS's are great for many different aspects of technology but sometimes buttons are superior.  I guess teaching the children who get the version 2 laptops touch-typing is out of the question...  <br><br>IMHO they need to get over the cool factor of 2 screens before they commit to manufacturing a mistake on their XO-2.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[sacapuntas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 5:10PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[Localization.  It is exceedingly expensive to manufacture localized keyboards for smaller deployments.  Does that mean children should be forced to compute in English or another non-native language, ignoring their local one?  With a touchscreen keyboard, key maps can easily be made for every deployment.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[cmonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 5:17PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[You missed perhaps the most important bits.  1gb of ram and 4+gb of NAND.  The 256mb of RAM is probably the biggest bottleneck on the XO-1, and deployments are constantly having issues with kids filling up the 1gb NAND.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[cmonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 5:14PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[iPhone-like]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[superhobo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 5:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[How does this have anything to do with an iPhone? 3rd world country laptops? C'mon.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lane]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 5:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[at least this has a physical keyboard...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[sacapuntas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 6:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[I, for one, never had any problems with this concept simply because of its almost absurd level of audacity but I think that at this point, it's time to put the pencils down.  <br><br>Give it a break and call "ahead of it's time" or something and try again in a few years when the situation's changed.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 5:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[Or basically just blah, blah, blah listen to my wonderful voice, blah, blah blah.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Major4Play]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 6:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[I do think this was ahead of its time - and they couldn't really deliver, but with the netbook craze and the hardware coming with that, this shouldn't be an issue in the very near future.  Still, based on what we've seen so far, I don't think that this is really going to change the world.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eddie W]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 7:29PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[Besides, whats the point of these monstruosities when netbooks are just as cheap and far more versatile.<br>It' s time for Negroponte to come out with something less stale.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[KilgoreTrout]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 9:29PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[My MIL has one. Freaking waste of petroleum.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[solarpos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 6:39PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[What is a MIL? Too many acronyms.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Aaron Sobel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 9:48PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[Mother in law you nüb]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bobbyrognlien]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 8:01PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[Mother in law? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthewmongan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 7:58PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA["Freaking waste of petroleum"<br><br>Your MIL or the laptop?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[JAmerican]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 19th 2009 3:52AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[Just a typo. He wanted to write 'My MILF']]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dalcébolus]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 19th 2009 2:38PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[<br>So, is it running Linux still, or is this the crap-ware version? (thus requiring the upgraded internals just to function)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[john]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 18th 2009 11:56PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[The idea and marketing of the gen 1 OLPC might have helped spur Intel down the Atom path - their classmate laptops running Celerons were only half an answer to the XO-1. No matter what happens OLPC has certainly improved the market for small general purpose computing. A lot of people commenting on Engadget don't get what the OLPC is for - thats because they live in a environment with ubiquitous power and networking. The OLPC sips power and the mesh networking allows for forms networking without the infrastructure that we are blessed with. No idea how these netbooks are actually working out in third world countries but the ideas are sound.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[adam.fred]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 19th 2009 4:37AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[This company is failing hard with this laptop.  They should just scrap it and raise money to buy eee pcs.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Will]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 19th 2009 11:17AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[Wow, the "geniuses" that designed this thing should be shot by third world soldiers.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Frank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 19th 2009 9:50PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[This thing was ahead of its time but has turned out to be a big fail.  What kids want to do on the computer is play games, this one is too crappy serious game-playing.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[BeeBoo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 20th 2009 12:19AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on XO Generation 1.5 promises some beefed up internals while we wait for XO-2 to change everything]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/xo-generation-1-5-promises-some-beefed-up-internals-while-we-wai/</guid><description><![CDATA[Sino mga nanalo sa raffle draw last june 30 2009 auto panalo promo ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[padz9]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 17th 2009 6:04AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
