From the WSJ: "The dream of cheap computers in the hands of millions of poor children is becoming a reality, though not exactly as its proponents imagined. For-profit competitors snatched the idea and have run with it."
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Member since:2007-08-03
And here are the results of the field tests:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Nigeria/Galadima
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Thailand/Ban_Samkha/trial-200705
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Uruguay/Cardal
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Peru/Arahuay
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Khairat_Chronicle
If I had my way, nobody would be allowed to comment on the OLPC project without reading them first :p
Member since:2006-01-27
And here are the results of the field tests:
If I had my way, nobody would be allowed to comment on the OLPC project without reading them first :p
Those "results" are actually press releases from within OLPC, hardly unbiased product reviews. Who would have guessed that kids would rather use electronic toys than write in the dirt with sticks?
And they say nothing about how the OLPC machines compare with the commercial competing products, the point of Almafeta's post.
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2005-07-06
Bullshits. The XO hardware and software is superior.
And the results of the field tests are available to show that the children are very capable to run the XO, even in its beta incarnation.
Edited 2007-12-04 20:17