Dec 8, 2007 2
You know, a lot has been said about the OLPC – good and bad. Many folks have tried to make some controversy out of the project (most expectedly, Microsoft but also some non-MS techy folks). But when you see the photos of the first kids to get the computers I find it baffling that anyone could be against such a thing.
Jul 19, 2007 0
I was lucky enough today to play with an OLPC. It was very very cute. Seriously. I dig the interface even though the one I played with was having some stability problems (don’t we all?) It has the tiniest little keyboard on it – which is only obvious if you are designing it for children… but still, tiny. The music app kicked some serious butt and I’m told the browser part does too… but that was part of the stability problem with the one I was using.
I’m hoping we will be able to use them on one of our projects – we’ll have to see.
Oh, by the way – that’s the first piece of hardware I have ever seen Open Firmware on – go figure.
