news.cnet.com - 10/24/2008
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On the outside, the Windows version of the XO laptop looks just like the Linux model. But simply booting up the device shows that the Windows version bears little resemblance to the original One Laptop Per Child device.
With the Microsoft version, you get Windows, for all the good and ...
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Confirmed: Kids like Sugar better than XP
Engadget —
Filed under: Laptops
It's hardly a scientific test, but when a Cnet editor's 8 year old daughter was given the choice between an OLPC XO laptop running Windows XP or the Linux-based Sugar UI, Sugar was the winner. As Cnet points out, either OS when properly incorporated into the teaching curriculum should serve the children of ...
OLPC con Windows o Linux (Sugar): los niños eligen Sugar
Gizmología —
El problema con el OLPC es que fueron muy lentos. La tardanza desde que mostraron el prototipo hasta que pudieron fabricarlo en masa es lo que casi mata este proyecto. Pero gracias al OLPC se han sacado ideas para los ultraportátiles, como el uso de memorias flash o las interfaces modificadas para este tipo de pantallas y de portátiles.
Una de las desilusiones más grandes de este proyecto fue que el OLPC llevase Windows XP, no por llevar el sistema operativo, si no que Sugar, la interfaz de su Linux era tan sencillamente perfecta para cualquier niño, que llevarle a después a la tortura de Windows debería ser delito. ¿Pero que pasa cuando le pones dos de ...
Windows versioned XO laptop
D' Technology Weblog —
On the outside, the Windows version of the XO laptop looks just like the Linux model. But simply booting up the device shows that the Windows version bears little resemblance to the original One Laptop Per Child device.
With the Microsoft version, you get Windows, for all the good and bad that entails. It’s full-on Windows–XP Professional, in fact–and can run basically any software that can adjust itself to the mini-laptop’s diminutive screen and modest processor.
Microsoft has managed to slim down the OS enough to boot up off a 2GB flash memory card and has written drivers for a ...
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