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60 Minutes - One Laptop Per Child (May 20, 2007)

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Length:: 6:03 Mins

A volunteer for the XO Computer tells how he learned about the XO Computer and amazing things he has seen in classrooms around the world.

Hi, my name is Hérick Palomo Quezada, I am a teacher in an Elementary school, here in Juarez, Chihuahua, México, and I have been training kids since first grade to sixth grade and they are very happy whit this computers, we also surf the web for new knowledge, this is a laptop for everyone, I highly recommended, we are also growing in knowledge with them, for more info here's my e-mail address herickpalomo_i@yahoo.com.mx ....................................bye

I bought 10 (received 5) in Give1Get1. Four of my great-grand kids (ages 5-11) got one and were using it to chat with each other within 15 minutes using the built-in mesh networking.

I kept one and love it (iMac "Apple iMac Desktop with 20" Display MA877LL/A (2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB RAM, 320 GB Hard Drive, SuperDrive)" and EeePC "Asus Eee 4G-Galaxy 7" PC Mobile Internet Device ( 512 MB RAM, 4 GB Hard Drive, Webcam, Linux Preloaded) Black "user). It boots in 90 seconds. Activities run fast when fully loaded. Review Groklaw and YouTube for OLPC. The keyboard is for child hands. I can type on it just fine using 2 fingers (easier than typing on cell phones).

I'm putting my money and time where my mouth is at and have ordered 60 more (receive 30) to demonstrate in schools etc.

We really wanted this laptop to work--for our child, as a birthday gift, and for another child in the world, who, presumably, would need it more than ours. We received it in December and it has been a colossal flop. Hard for children and grownups (very computer-literate grownups) to navigate. The child cannot use it--she ends up in tears of frustration. The adults were looking forward to using it, even the Linux system--but no. No go. How do I return this thing? I hope there is support for the other child in the world who got this thing--we are unsupported, unhappy, and have only a cool looking green paperweight here in our home.

Amazon promoted laptop while they sent only promotional CD, wrong message with the bad service this is what all I have to say!

First I thought the one laptop per child would be a wonderful idea ... so I ordered one from the website, and sent one to a under-privileged child somewhere. I wanted to see for myself what this device would be like, and if there was any useful software development to be done on it.

I got mine about a week ago, and it is terrible. It is way too slow. There is no documentation ... except on the web ... and it is far too poor and useless.

The device is a nice size, but the keyboard and keys will be problematic, I guess this is so one can only type very slow so the device can keep up ... my toy computer of 20 years ago was better than this and cost about the same.

I am sorry to say but I have to predict that this idea is going down in flames. It will be worse than useless to children and everyone who has anything to do with it. Not even a nice try. What a sad waste of time and materials.