If it looks like that, I fucking love this already. I'm always using my PSP as a mirror, and a lot of my friends use the backs of their iPods. Why not make one that doesn't horribly warp your face?
@Technogamer1992: Well it was going to topple Apple from behind, but you've cleverly thwarted that idea. I guess it'll just have to use Toastie's idea and attempt to blind Apple. But dude, don't tell Apple!
You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a.....you can paint a turd gold but its still.... you can put a mirror on a phone but... oh what the hell this thing looks like someone polished a turd.
@LuckyLakey: I, for one, would love a polished turd phone. Holding it up to my ear would not only garner me envious stares aplenty, but I could always end each call with a sincere if abrupt, "I can't hear you for shit!"
@bosskev: Other than the fact that the person on the other end of the phone conversation would never get the joke - you are correct that it would be worth buying one for that line alone.
Maybe they could reduce costs by having employees use XO computers.
Actually, the whole OLPC organization is misguided. It would be much more efficient and successful to develop and manufacture them as a commercial product, in partnership rather than in competition with industry leaders, and then create a nonprofit solely to distribute them to impoverished areas.
WHY are they trying to make dual touch screen ones?!?! Why don't they just keep the cost DOWN and make basic well functioning cheep laptops? They could do a lot more good with their donations that way. This is just ridiculous.
Not to sound cold, but what if they actually sold those things HERE. In the US? Maybe they could actually make some money. I think a lot of parents would want to buy a $100 computer for there little kid to play with. There is a huge opportunity but there blowing away the chance. THEN when they are sitting on top of a pile of cash they can start sending those things to Africa with there assets and not half hearted donations.
@NotSoSiniSter: I agree. I would have jumped at the chance to get something like this for my daughter, heck, I'd have paid quite a bit more than $100. As it is, my daughter is really not old enough to do much more with a computer and my heart jumps every time she uses one of my 1k+ laptops.
@Shamoononon has hebetudinous dog ★★★★★: @Andyr2120: @ppeetteeyy: @CrispyAardvark: As one of the first people in the US to order an XO, I have to say that it's not the best laptop in the world. I like it, but at first, the laptop was in need of a lot of help. The OS was terrible, had none of the features they said it would, and was crippled to dis-allow certain programs to be loaded like web browsers and other things. It still needs some work, which is why I don't use it as much as I would like. The community HAS been working on it, which is great. Also add in that I don't know my linux very well, and it was much easier for me to pull a laptop out of a dumpster and add some RAM than it was/is to get this laptop to work very well.
That being said, I do love the whole idea of the project. I think if I learned on Linux to start, I would easily get the laptop up and running. The screen IS awesome, and once I finally get a OS with a GUI, I will use it more than I do now. I got a lot of attention when I was using it at the Gallery.
@commentotron: It's not the laptops that will help solve the problem it's the power they will get from the knowledge they will receive by using the laptops and accessing the internet and the world. Maybe if Suzie knew how to use a computer and get some typing skills, take some online classes she could find a job. Tell me you haven't use the internet to find answers no one else knew. These children will be able to access news, weather for farming, even be able to order the things they need learn and live. We don't need to feed these people, they need to learn how to feed themselves and giving them the tools to so is better then just giving them rations and shoes.
Exotic locales, high production values, this thing, and all their other advertising, could not have been cheap... here's an idea, how about putting the money they spent on this towards, you know, actually shipping the damn things.
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...so.. how does this topple the apple empire??
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Might be slightly NSFW?
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Actually, the whole OLPC organization is misguided. It would be much more efficient and successful to develop and manufacture them as a commercial product, in partnership rather than in competition with industry leaders, and then create a nonprofit solely to distribute them to impoverished areas.
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That being said, I do love the whole idea of the project. I think if I learned on Linux to start, I would easily get the laptop up and running. The screen IS awesome, and once I finally get a OS with a GUI, I will use it more than I do now. I got a lot of attention when I was using it at the Gallery.
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If only little suzie had a laptop she'd not have to get pimped out!
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