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Submission + - OLPCs ship. What are your first impressions?

0x4a6f6e43 writes: "The G1G1 program starting shipping the first XO laptops about 2 weeks ago. It's always fun to watch the birth of a new community. The first impressions from adults, 9 year olds, 12 year olds, and my wife clearly indicate: it's tiny, a bit slow, made for kids, and most of all it's cute. Users are already ditching the default browser for Opera for OLPC and the Adobe Flash Player for OLPC, bringing all those internet games to the XO. The only downsides from the various forums, wiki.laptop.org is straining under the load of olpc users, people really don't understand their home wi-fi set up (WEP ascii passwords, hex passwords, ahhhh), and the XO's networking is a bit too advanced for user's home networks. People are discovering they need to update their DSL modem firmware because of the DNS "1.0.0.0" bug in older revs of linux based DSL modems. So what's your first impressions of the Tiny Green Machine?"

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