Obsolete Your Idols » olpc http://blog.manjusri.org Book Reviews and Blather Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:05:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Green of Envy http://blog.manjusri.org/2007/12/20/olpc-xo-first-handling/ http://blog.manjusri.org/2007/12/20/olpc-xo-first-handling/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:33:52 +0000 binder http://blog.manjusri.org/2007/12/20/olpc-xo-first-handling/ My OLPC XO has arrived and oh it is sweet.  Photo set of me opening the box.  What you can’t hear is me going OOOH and AHHHH at everything I saw.  I hope to have a more detailed review after I’ve used it for a couple of days.

Initial impressions:

  • Cute.    A real crowd pleaser.  Nearly everyone I showed it to vowed to get one or expressed envy.
  • Good form factor, other than the keyboard.  It’s only a problem because I have fat fingers and can’t touch type on it.
  • The UI is generally intuitive.  I can figure out pretty quickly what will happen if I do something or, at the worst, what I just did.  Not always easy to figure out how to do something I haven’t done before but maybe that will come with time and experience.
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