Product Details

• Actors: Lesley Stahl
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: CBS
• DVD Release Date: May 29, 2007
• Run Time: 12 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000QXCPKE
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #81,548 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Airdate: 05/17/07 MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte has a dream: one day, every child in the world will have a high-quality, low-cost laptop computer so that even the poorest among them can learn. Negroponte is now touring the world, toting these laptops with him, and children love them. In one Cambodian village without electricity, Negroponte says the children's glowing laptops illuminate their homes, as well as their minds. Lesley Stahl reports.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars XO Computer, November 2, 2008

By	Douglas M. Bocaz-larson "Poco Loco" (Grants, NM United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for our child, July 8, 2008

By	Maire D. (Melrose, MA USA) - See all my reviews

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.

7 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great! Best educational laptop available!, January 4, 2008

By	R. Brincefield "Global Literacy Foundation Inc." (Glendale, Arizona USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.