OMG, OMG, It's here !
Thursday, 8. May 2008, 06:46:54
Yes, yes, yes! The OLPCs have arrived. 209 kilograms of them, 100 lean-mean-green-machines.
It's superb. It awfully, criminally cute. White-and-green, extremely tiny - it was a lot smaller than I expected. The battery clicked in, I pressed the power button and it started working. Oddly enough, I've no problems with the Sugar interface. It's right as it should be, for the purposes of this laptop. It also blends perfectly with the look and feel of this little gem.
The screen is, as expected - superb. It's got an amazing detail for its tiny size. Not that tiny, considering that other "simmilar" solutions provide even smaller screens. Honestly, I don't think anything below this will be usable. Then it's the magical monochrome mode. Turn the light all the way down - hello, my perfect e-book reader. It works brilliantly under direct sunlight. And if you think that this is not important - you should go out more. The screen rotates, with the touch of a button. It's the most awesome of awesome.
I finally have a machine with a decent camera too. It works and it takes pictures. I will share some here, ASAP. It also has a mic and speakers built-in, so it's a fully functional communications agent, out of the box. Small box, with a power supply in it and a 1-page instruction manual. That's all you get.
The keyboard is strangely cute. Soft rubber keys, spill-resistant, what more to ask from it. Yes, you could whine about the size of the keys, or that sometimes you don't feel if you really pressed one of them or not. But they work with no big issues for me - I'm typing this from my OLPC. I wanted this blog to come from the small green machine.
It's just so cool. In the true spirit of geekness - I'm using Opera's special OLPC edition on it. I also have emacs and mplayer on it already. I watched a movie on it last night, with no issues whatsoever. Coding in the sun will be fun too. This is definitelly going to be my favourite plane toy. It's small and easy and it does anything I want. Its schoolbag, or lunchbox, looks will draw attention for sure. I want to see how people react to it, I'm sure that I'll be getting a lot of questions.
All of us will - the 60+ recepients from Opera Software and the rest of the lucky 100 that get to share the fun of this priceless little gem. Detailed updadtes for our progress in hacking into it are sure to follow.
It's superb. It awfully, criminally cute. White-and-green, extremely tiny - it was a lot smaller than I expected. The battery clicked in, I pressed the power button and it started working. Oddly enough, I've no problems with the Sugar interface. It's right as it should be, for the purposes of this laptop. It also blends perfectly with the look and feel of this little gem.
The screen is, as expected - superb. It's got an amazing detail for its tiny size. Not that tiny, considering that other "simmilar" solutions provide even smaller screens. Honestly, I don't think anything below this will be usable. Then it's the magical monochrome mode. Turn the light all the way down - hello, my perfect e-book reader. It works brilliantly under direct sunlight. And if you think that this is not important - you should go out more. The screen rotates, with the touch of a button. It's the most awesome of awesome.
I finally have a machine with a decent camera too. It works and it takes pictures. I will share some here, ASAP. It also has a mic and speakers built-in, so it's a fully functional communications agent, out of the box. Small box, with a power supply in it and a 1-page instruction manual. That's all you get.
The keyboard is strangely cute. Soft rubber keys, spill-resistant, what more to ask from it. Yes, you could whine about the size of the keys, or that sometimes you don't feel if you really pressed one of them or not. But they work with no big issues for me - I'm typing this from my OLPC. I wanted this blog to come from the small green machine.
It's just so cool. In the true spirit of geekness - I'm using Opera's special OLPC edition on it. I also have emacs and mplayer on it already. I watched a movie on it last night, with no issues whatsoever. Coding in the sun will be fun too. This is definitelly going to be my favourite plane toy. It's small and easy and it does anything I want. Its schoolbag, or lunchbox, looks will draw attention for sure. I want to see how people react to it, I'm sure that I'll be getting a lot of questions.
All of us will - the 60+ recepients from Opera Software and the rest of the lucky 100 that get to share the fun of this priceless little gem. Detailed updadtes for our progress in hacking into it are sure to follow.
Are there 40- laptops potentially available?
By dantesoft, # 8. May 2008, 08:53:27
By AOTEAROAnz, # 11. May 2008, 08:16:55
By TheAtilla, # 11. May 2008, 14:14:26