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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
has anyone gotten one yet?
I'm thinking of buying one but will wait until I get back from the holiday... there's only 1 more week to purchase the 2 for 1 deal
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I don't actually own one, but I got a chance to play with a couple of the pre-production models. Some impressions:
o This is not a laptop. Well, it's not a laptop like what you'd expect to get picking one up from Walmart. The UI was developed entirely for the laptop, and is designed to be much simpler than the standard windows/mac/linux desktop look. Similarly, you won't be able to run/install 'off-the-shelf' software on the thing.
o The pre-production models I tried were very, very slow. The shipping models are supposed to be a good bit better, but they'll still be fairly slow, I suspect.
o These are not for what you might think of as 'third-world' countries, where people are struggling to eat. These are for children with food, clean water, housing, and schools. But in areas that are too poor to afford things like textbooks and computers. There's a whole continuum of poor people; this is targetted at a subset of them. You could certainly also donate to people who need food and clean water, but this is targetted at a different demographic entirely.