By James Chung with apologies to Mr. Watterson
What I am Going Through Waiting for My Own OLPC
Posted by Guest Writer on December 13, 2007 in Countries: Canada, Sales Talk: G1G1, Countries: USA
Tagged Bill Waterson, Calvin and Hobbes, James Chung, OLPC News, OLPC News Cartoon, OLPC Wait, XO Laptop Lust
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Wondering the status of One laptop Per Child? Why its so exciting? What is the "XO-1" and who is deploying "$100 laptops" where? Then read the March 2009 Overview by OLPC News.
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Read the details and instructions!
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Read our analysis of OLPC's Refocusing
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G1G1 2008 is Over. Damn.
Yet again, OLPC has decided to end Give 1 Get 1 on December 31. I am saddened by the loss of opportunity to engage people personally with XO laptops.
Now to wonder: what was the G1G1 impact?
Now to wonder: what was the G1G1 impact?
Give One Get One 2008 Buyers Gide
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This is what I'm doing waiting for a 'Shipped' email: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/online_package_tracking.png from http://xkcd.com/281/
(PS. *this^* is CC -by-nc.) Waterson is one of the most ripped off comic artists out there as he's never authorized *any* merch. All those Calvin's peeing on things are unauthorized.
You strip img tags? Lame!
xkcd: Online Package Tracking
And href tags.
http://xkcd.com/281/
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Yup, that's pretty much me these days. Thanks to PayPal being odd about remembering addresses, mine is actually traveling to an old address first, adding another level of twitch factor about when I'll actually receive it.
Just a question, if any one knows, do we have to wait 12 hours to charge the XO before we, I mean, our kids can play with it? Because THAT will make it unbearable.
Drew says the battery came fully charged.
My concern is the LCD screen... I think I should buy the screen protector before it comes. So I can apply it before I turn it on...
From what I've seen, the batteries are arriving fully charged. I don't know if that will be true across the board, but there's hope at least.
What about Canada? G1G1 hasn't posted shipping information for Canada yet! I only got a form-letter response for US ship dates.
The OLPC will run off the AC adapter, so you can learn the ropes while the battery is charging.
Another Canuck waiting for G1G1 news. I don't mind waiting, but I wish that they would improve their communications to us. If they ship to Canada January or February, fine. (Granted, I'm lucky and can beg and borrow time on developer models). I can bottle up the anticipation as long as it has a known best before date. But right now I'm concerned that they may have bumped into some sort of import/export controls.
best post ever. From all the internets.
All this activity reminds me of the early days of the Altair, when one buyer even camped out in the MITS parking lot waiting for them to build his machine.
Have fun, everyone!
A G1G1 has landed in Biloxi, Mississippi according to a user in IRC today.
I ordered the first day, and I live in San Jose, California. At 10 a.m. the Federal Express guy came and gave me my XO. Now to explore it for the weekend.
My experience, in comics form:
http://flickr.com/photos/johnralston/2111888086/
Of course, my comics take place in 1917 right now, but you get the idea!