XO Laptops are soon to be available ..

[Jay Vaughan]

>
> I'm curious to hear what you think of it.
>

Its great!  Just, really small keys .. and that is terribly  
annoying.  But the software has come a loooong way and its starting  
to be a very solid little platform for all sorts of things - video  
editing, sample/audio tracking, a bit of synthesis, etc.

> And honestly, the current fundraising idea of buy-two-get-one is a  
> clear
> hint that we'll get our hands on them too at some point...

I think 2008 will definitely be the year we'll see them become more  
common .. its strange though, at some of these local hacker meetings  
in Vienna .. OLPC's are like the 'new macbook' .. all the elite  
hackers have one.

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Jay Vaughan