XO Trying It Out

[liralen]

Even with my narrow hands, the keyboard is a bit too small for real touch typing. But if I just use the middle three fingers of each hand I'm actually getting pretty good speeds even if I'm not great on the accuracy.

I really like the black and white mode with the sunshine around here, as it's quite readable and the battery lasts and lasts. The screen os very small, but there are some pretty good magnifying modes for it, so that work out okay.

It works just fine with our wireless setup, so I'm very happy about that.

I was contemplating an electronic dictionary with an even smaller keyboard for thumb driven notes, so this is better than that by a long shot. It's good to know that I can post using this. Just. Hee.

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[archangelbeth]

What's the new toy, again? O:> (Xo?)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

The XO Laptop from the One laptop per child (OLPC) program, where you give them $400 and they send you a laptop and then send one to a kid somewhere else. It comes with lots of cool stuff, including music, editing, programming, browsing capabilities and a peer to peer networking ability. It can be powered with a hand crank, and it's bash, dust, and mostly water resistant and small enough a kid can haul it around easily.

Jet loves it. Even if I can't use it for mobile stuff, I am glad he can work with it. He's learning stuff hand over fist about how computers work and don't work, where they're flexible and where they're rigid, and he's very much into writing, drawing, doing music that he can save and play back.

[archangelbeth]

Oh! That thing! I forgot what it was called. *blush* COOL!

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

I haven't gotten mine on-line yet -- there's apparently a bug in the software where it won't connect to a WPA-secured network, which is what I have at home; and I can't connect to the work wireless because you need to have a bunch of certificates on the machine for that to work. I could take it to some public wireless point, but I haven't gotten around to that yet.

They claim there will be a software update around the end of January that should fix this.

But yes, it is a nifty gadget. A touch buggy yet, but I like a lot of the apps they've loaded on it.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we had WEP, so it worked okay.

Yay for software update! Yeah, it's buggy, still, but it's been nice.