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Eeegad! This ain't good. In fact, this is downright scary. Please let that be a typo!
Yo Engadget, you need to make that "Do note" geographic reference a little more prominent. It looks like Canadian G1G1 participants might be getting the long end of the shipping stick: http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/g1g1/xo_laptop_christmas_delivery.html
Its really important to note that this is the first time OLPC XO and Classmate PC went head to head in open, government sponsored testing, the Ceibal RFP: http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/uruguay/olpc_uruguay_ceibal_proposal.html

And OLPC XO won!

Also, I truly hope OLPC won on its technology and educational benefits, not price.
My prediction: y'all naysaying OLPC sales will be over at my house on Dec 26 begging to be playing DOOM on the XO: http://www.olpcnews.com/software/third_party/doom_on_the_olpc_xo.html
I know I want to buy every kid on my block a XO Xmas surprise: http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/usa/olpc_xo_sales_christmas_buy.html
I think the reason we're seeing the XO price increase is the lack of government orders to date reducing the number of computers Quanta is willing to make on spec. They're even delaying production again! http://www.olpcnews.com/hardware/production/xo_laptop_production_delay.html
If users "simply want their digital products to operate as promised" then they would bequickly frustrated with Windows anything. Ubuntu is a dream of operational ease by comparison, no matter the driver install requirements.
Even better news from OLPC - they're going to have XO's for retail sales by Christmas! http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/usa/olpc_xo_sales_christmas_buy.html
Funny that OLPC announced this today. On July 9th, Digitimes reported that Quanta was putting in orders with upstream suppliers, though in less volume than anticipated: http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20070709PB207.html
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I'm in the market for a new phone and money isn't a limitation. I'm also not partial to any particular US carrier, but here are some of the features I'd like to have: WiFi, GPS, good coverage in lots of places, push Gmail (a must!), physical keyboard (a must!), a touchscreen, decent battery life and a relatively slim body. And please, nothing that has a fruit logo on it. No offense to the fruit fans, though. Thanks!"
 

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