One Laptop Per Geek
Last year, Håkon Wium Lie (CTO at Opera Software and inventor of CSS) offered to order OLPCs for interested Opera employees. For those of you who don’t know, Opera is headquartered in Oslo, Norway (yes, Europe…), and I believe they didn’t (still don’t?) have the “give one, get one” program available outside of the United States.
In any case, it took a while for them to be shipped, but he finally got them, and handed them out today! Price per laptop, including shipping (100 OLPCs do actually weigh a bit), came to 2000 Norwegian kroner ($393 or €255.9).
We booted them up, played around with the mesh networking - things worked really well, but it is a little slow. I did expect that, though. First impressions are good, it’s a neat little device. I can’t wait to lounge in the parks of Oslo, reading feeds and surfing around on the Internet. The screen worked really well in the sun.
It came with a charged battery, which was really great … Most devices do not, and you have to wait for it to charge before you can use it. Not with the OLPC - just insert the battery and boot up.
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