“groovy mother...”

OLPC will be running a buy-one-donate-one scheme for the XO laptop: Pay $399 and you’ll get a laptop for yourself and pay to send another to the developing world.

Well-written (for a 12-year-old) review of the OLPC XO laptop. The main concern about how slow it is seems moot to me for the target audience for whom this is their first computer: I accepted three-minute loading times on my ZX Spectrum at that age. (And is this a vindication of the original Speccy’s rubber keyboard?)

Fantastic if it pans out — The great unwashed will be allowed to buy (on eBay?!) an OLPC laptop, so long as they simultaneously pay for a second one to be shipping to the developing world. Sign me up!