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One Laptop per child

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"A bon-profit hopes to help children in impoverished countries by distributing low-cost computers. The first shipment of laptops is on its way to Uruguay and Peru. The foundation is running a special holiday program called "Give One Get One" until December 31."

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written by siftbot

| 1 year 6 months ago | CH

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Has anyone bought one through their 'give one get one' program? Can it play flash video?

If so, there could be 1 billion new sifters in no time!

written by fissionchips

| 1 year 6 months ago | CH

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I did G1G1, it has not arrived yet, but it does come with a flash player in the browser(stripped down firefox), it has flash-block, so it's an extra click to run, but it should be no problem, except for bandwidth.

The countries that the machines are going to now have net infrastructure, so they will be, by and large, online, but many of the countries that this is targeted at will have a local, or a request/cache system which will allow web pages, and e-mail, but no ajax or streaming.

I don't think they have 1 Billion orders yet.

If you are interested you can run the system software, called sugar, there are a few live boot CDs with the whole XO sugar system installed, so that you can check it out without an XO, or installing anything on your machine.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveCd

written by dgandhi

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So you give a laptop then you get another laptop in return? Doesnt make sense.

written by 9647 | 1 year 6 months ago | CH

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megadeth666: you send them $400 as a "donation", which buys 2. They send one to a developing nation, and send you one, mostly for PR and geekery, though some people give them to their kids. The XO is not designed to be a first world consumer gadget, but does have some interesting tech innovations, what olpc fanboys call "clock stopping hot technology".

written by dgandhi

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