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Exclusive Hands-On With OLPC’s XO Running Windows XP
blog.laptopmag.com - 8/6/2008
Exclusive Hands-On With OLPC’s XO Running Windows XP
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Windows Microsoft officially announced that it was going to port over Windows XP to One Laptop Per Child’s XO laptop in May. Along with the announcement they put up a video of how XP performs on the machine that was originally built to support Sugar, the Linux OS that was designed to promote learning by [...]

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Gizmodo:  Windows XP On OLPC Gets Slowly Tested [Olpc]

Engadget:  Windows XP tested on the OLPC XO, as slow as you'd expect

SlashGear:  OLPC XO-1 WinXP edition: slow start-up but shows promise

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Windows XP On OLPC Gets Slowly Tested [Olpc]
Gizmodo — ... and unsurprisingly, things are a bit sluggish. The XO's hardware has gone unchanged for the XP edition, so Windows boots off of an SD card which also packs Office, IE, and other apps. While IE fired up in five seconds, the OS took 1 minute 24 seconds to boot, and no one should be surprised that multitasking on the little guy's 256MB of RAM was not fun. Mesh networking is also not making it to the Windows version, unfortunately, but kids can still dual-boot into the Sugar OS for that. [Laptop] ...

Windows XP tested on the OLPC XO, as slow as you'd expect
Engadget — ... Here's the surprise of the century: Windows XP runs excruciatingly slowly on the OLPC XO. We're shocked, simply shocked. The folks at Laptop Mag got to kick the tires on this fruit of the XO and Microsoft partnership, and while to their credit they've manage to ...

OLPC XO-1 WinXP edition: slow start-up but shows promise
SlashGear — ... After Microsoft and the OLPC project made their OS deal official, we all knew Windows XP was going to end up on the XO-1 notebook.  Laptop Mag scored an invite to check out the system, which will ...

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