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Comment: Water, Heat, Cold, Dust Resistant? Try the XO (Score 1) 479

by d0ida on Wednesday February 06 2008, @06:08PM (#22326908) Attached to: Best Laptop for Going Around the World?

I have an XO laptop from the One Laptop per Child program. I haven't travelled the world with it yet, but I can tell you it is perfectly capable of being a lightweight machine for internet browsing and writing. Its specs allow for toleration of extreme environments and voltages for charging. I can charge mine in the car. The battery lasts me about 3 hours, or more if I dial down the backlight and turn off the wifi. The screen really is sunlight-readable. Another comment talked about storing photos on an SD card. That could work since the laptop has an SD slot and three USB ports. Of course you would have to see if the OS would work with your camera. The machine itself weighs about three pounds and is smaller than an 8.5x11 inch piece of paper and just a little thicker than a US quarter is in diameter. Caveat: the keyboard is small for adult-size fingers. Some custom installation is needed to get things like Flash websites to work. Oh, and you'll have to get one off Ebay unless you have some helpful contact since they are not being sold singly at present.

No Laptop per Canadian Child?-> 0

Submitted by d0ida on Wednesday December 19 2007, @09:28PM

d0ida writes "OLPC News reports on the lack of Give One, Get One laptops shipping to Canada. Apparently not one Canadian order has crossed the border although Americans in the lower 48 and even Alaska and Hawaii have theirs on the way. Worst of all, OLPC Donor Services has no answers for Canadian supporters of OLPC. http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/canada/g1g1_canadians_have_kids.html"
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OLPC lawsuit-bringer has past fraud conviction?-> 0

Submitted by d0ida on Saturday December 01 2007, @05:51PM

d0ida writes "The Boston Globe posted an article online about LANCOR's lawsuit over the keyboard design: see http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/12/01/one_laptop_per_child_orders_surge/ "Negroponte said the lawsuit is without merit, because OLPC uses a keyboard programming technique developed in 1996, long before the Nigerian patent was filed. The founder of Lagos Analysis Corp., Ade Oyegbola, was convicted of bank fraud in Boston in 1990 and served a year in prison. Oyegbola insists his Nigerian patent is legitimate and said he plans to file a copyright-infringement lawsuit against OLPC in an American court.""
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Nigerian Company Sues OLPC 277

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 27 2007, @11:53PM
from the split-shift-key dept.

d0ida writes on the continuing troubles at the OLPC Association. Adding to the recent difficulties — the BBC has picked up the litany — a US-based, Nigerian-owned company has now filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against OLPC. Lagos Analysis Corp. claims that OLPC "made unauthorized use of LANCOR's multilingual keyboard technology invention in XO laptops." The suit was filed in Lagos.

Nigerian Company sues OLPC 0

Submitted by d0ida on Tuesday November 27 2007, @07:23PM

d0ida writes "It would be Nigeria...."Lagos Analysis Corp. (LANCOR) Files Lawsuit Against Nicholas Negroponte and OLPC Association for Patent Infringement. Negroponte's OLPC Accused of Unauthorized Use of LANCOR's Multilingual Keyboard Technology Invention in XO Laptops" http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=796745"