Well, the OLPC project finally has some production hardware to show. And - frankly, it gets me more drooling than yet another sleek Apple design. It’s quirky (that always scores brownie points with me), it’s cool (what is cooler than connecting kids), and running a simulation under VMware shows something that is, well… different in an extremely interesting way.

Call me a naive idealist, but this is the sort of hardware that gets me excited - it serves a purpose, and every bit of its design serves that purpose. And it’s for real now - starting yesterday, a 2 week program called Give One, Get One allows you to give someone a laptop and get one yourself. Alas, only when you live in the US or Canada (mostly due to pending safety approvals in the rest of the world), so unless someone gets triggered by this post to send me one , I’ll have to stick with the VMware image a bit…

Give one and get one, is my advice. At worst, it’s a tax deductible toy. At best, you’ll hold a piece of history.

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