[OB] OLPC laptop

[Andrew Lovell]

Hi

I would like to buy an OLPC laptop, but they can only be dispatched 
to North America....

Yours

Andrew Lovell


At 15:30 08-01-02, you wrote:
>Earlier, Christopher Erickson wrote:
> >
> > ASUS Eee PC.
> >
> > 
> http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3D24&l2=3D0&l3=3D0&l4=3D0&model=3D1907=
> > &modelmenu=3D1
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC
> >
> > http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=3D8643426&type=3Dproduct&id=
> > =3D1195597748307&ref=3D06&loc=3D01&ci_src=3D17588969&ci_sku=3D8643426
> >
> > Linux, GUI, solid state hard drive, tiny, long lasting battery, 
> affordable =
> > & pre-loaded with software.  XP can be installed on it
> > too.
> >
> > Pretty cute.
>
>Speaking of tiny, pretty cute, laptops ... have any of you looked at
>the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) machine?  Look at http://www.laptop.org
>
>It's cute, but also a real solid state laptop running Linux, Red Hat's
>Fedora Core 6 with X and Javascript, has a 1200x900 TFT screen, WiFi,
>it's aimed at low power consumption.
>
>     http://www.laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml
>
>Although it looks like a child's toy (almost), you can open a shell window
>and go from there.  In my 3 minute examination of one the other day,
>I found that ssh is included and works as expected.  With that and vim,
>what else do you need?    :-)
>
>Until 12/31/07 there was a Get 1 Give 1 program (G1G1), where you could
>buy two of them for a $400 donation, you got one and the other was donated
>to the program.  I couldn't resist getting in the queue for a sometime in
>early 2008 delivery.
>
>     - Charlie
>
>  Charlie Smith  charlie at elektro.cmhnet.org  +1 614 271-1418
>  http://www.elektro.com/charlie/        Columbus Ohio   USA
>
>
>
>
>
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