First Look At Final OLPC Design

blackbearnh writes "At the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday, AMD hosted a presentation of the final Industrial Prototype (Beta 1) of the One Laptop Per Child XO Laptop. Linux Today has extensive reporting, including new photos and details about power consumption, networking, and the logistics of distributing and servicing what will be the largest rollout of any computing platform in history: 5 million units in the first year. This will represent nearly a 10% increase in the total worldwide laptop production for 2007."

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Re:Playstation buttons

[CastrTroy]

I could see this helping for language agnostic buttons, but I think they were a complete failure on the Playstaion I,II,III. The problem for new gamers is to remember which button is where. Since you don't associate Triangle, circle, square and X with any position, it's hard to remember which button is where. Granted I find it weird that the NES put B on the left of A, but that's easy enough to remember. Maybe other people like it, and after a while playing on it, probably don't find it that bad. But my experiences, where I visit a friends house, and play NHL hockey or some other game, find it very frustrating. Which ones the shoot button. oh that's circle. and I have to keep on looking for where the circle button is. If you ask me, the GC has the best button layout. You can Identify all the buttons by feel, and the "Home" (Big green A) button always makes sure you know which button you are on. It also makes sense that since in 90% of games you are pushing 1 button 90% of the time, to make that button nice and big.