OLPC Laptop vs. Intel Classmate
April 23, 2008 — Daniel LivingstonePerhaps not the most balanced and thorough review ever, but still it’s illuminating when a One Laptop Per Child XO laptop and an Intel Classmate are both given to a 9 year old boy to review (caveat: He may well be 10 now, it isn’t clear!)
See it here on the BBC dot.life blog.
OLPC clearly holds its own, though - and does prove the kids don’t really mind another operating system that isn’t Windows.
April 27, 2008 at 9:23 pm
OLPC is likely to ship with windows
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/04/olpc-shakeout-battle-for-sugar.html
April 29, 2008 at 11:24 am
Yikes, missed that.
Thanks for the link. I haven’t had a chance to try out Sugar for myself, but watching the BBC videos it was clear that the unfamiliar interface was NO barrier to the children using it. It might freak out funders who are used to Windows, and draw on unfamiliar metaphors, but as highlighted in the link, it was designed from the ground up to be a learning environment - unlike Windows.