Comments on: Exclusive Hands-On With OLPC’s XO Running Windows XP

By: Orlando Rodriguez

Orlando Rodriguez — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:17:13 +0000

How and where do I get the windows XP for the XO.

By: Marianne Wagner

Marianne Wagner — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:27:06 +0000

We have one of these laptops. How do we get the windows applications?
Thanks
Marianne Wagner

By: rauy

rauy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:00:12 +0000

imagine when viruses/trojan horses start attacking these machines, what would the little kids do? Is there even support for these systems once they’re in those far-off provinces in Africa, Asia or some far-fetched places in the world?

By: Ivory

Ivory — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:09:57 +0000

I would like to see one running Ubuntu 8.04. XP runns like a bad joke

By: moksha

moksha — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:09:03 +0000

“Children who get the XO might want to go watch a cartoon or two while they’re waiting for the system to start”

I don’t think children who will be using XO will have access to cartoons… This may be the only electronic entertainment they will have. So it should better be quick and easy

By: Troy

Troy — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:08:12 +0000

When and where can I get Windows XP for my XO computer?

By: Sascha

Sascha — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:30:36 +0000

Unfortunately another bad mistake from the OLPC guys.
They lost all the credibility in the open source scene (which supported this project for all the years) and especially in combination with Windows they are not competitive at all. Intel will bulldoze all over their markets wth the Classmate, which will offer a better performance at pretty much the same pricepoint. (just take a look at the 500k unit order from portugal, which outsales nearly the whole olpc production so far!)

and hell, i am sure we will see also plenty of sub $200 netbooks in the future.

Anyways, this project is called “One Laptop Per Child” and now these kids are getting an 8 year old desktop os. i would love to see that device reviewed by a 7 year old from central africa that can’t even read.

By: xrror

xrror — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:14:31 +0000

heh, it would be pretty sweet if some enterprising kid did get good with a soldering iron explicitly to upgrade XO’s by taking chips off of old DIMM’s. Find some lower powered wood burning kit and file the tip some. Though solder would be hard to get, and DIMM’s probably are a rather exotic thing to “procure” out in the remote areas. Yes I know this probably won’t happen but just a fun thought.

By: N Ber

N Ber — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:24:35 +0000

Unfortunately the OLPC XO-1’s memory cannot be upgraded like conventional laptops. You might be able to get something working if you are really good with a soldering iron, but otherwise it is stuck with the 256MB it was shipped with.

By: yagi

yagi — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:22:56 +0000

I say splurge on memory and increase the default to an Earth-rending 512MB. Sure, only 64MB was required at original release, but SP2 brought additional services and today’s applications are RAM-hungry. Would any of you run XP on less than 512MB of memory? Then why should these kids?