OLPC News on Asus Eee PC
Now that you've changed your plans and are joining us for the OLPC News Meetup tonight at RFD in Chinatown (map)I have a surprise for you.
It looks like we will have at least four hot little laptops to get our geek on with:
- Two OLPC BTest-4 XO's
- One OLPC BTest-1 XO
- One Asus Eee PC
Give One Get One Links:
- My OLPC XO is Ordered - The Buying Experience
- OLPC G1G1 Telephone Order Confusion Backup Plan
- How to G1G1 XO-1 in Europe, Asia, Africa & Americas
- Give One Get One Has Started!!
- OLPC XO-1 Give One Get One Gets Better!
- My Unanswered Questions About OLPC's Give One Get One
- Unintended Consequences of OLPC's G1G1 Sales of XO Laptops
- Why Give One XO-1 When You Can Donate 1,000 or 10,000?!
- Why OLPC's Give One Get One Will Sell Out Fast!
- One Laptop Per Child's G1G1 XO Plan is Punting to the Pilots
- G1G1 Backstory: Negroponte Admits Sales Defeat & Rebounds
- OLPC Give 1 Get 1 Program: XO-1 Laptop USA Sales!!!
- Americans Want to Help One Laptop Per Child
I also managed to pack a Freeplay Weza foot treadle generator into a rolling case for tonight. We can all convert some of the beer calories into to electrical wattage...
http://www.freeplayenergy.com/products/portable-power/portable-energy/weza
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Any phone orders processed yet?
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Hi -- sorry to post an off-topic comment, but have any of you who ordered G1G1 by phone had the transaction post to your credit card yet? And, if so, were you charged shipping?
I'm also sorry I can't be there in DC. That would be fun. Chew on this thought for me while your'e there: maybe the introduction of so many other ultra-low-cost notebook computer entrants is _directly attributable_ to the OLPC project, and maybe it can be seen as both a validation of MIT's goals and as a means of achieving those goals.
Maybe tons of other cheap notebooks will be not a bad thing at all for the OLPC project, even if it means "competition." This ain't a zero-sum game.
I'll be there with bells and whistles on. I have an AMD PIC in tow, but no periphereals; and a standard laptop (that I paid ~$400 for) running kUbuntu (Feisty Fawn).
See you soon!