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Kids Review the OLPC

Posted by kdawson on from the mouths-of-babes dept.

A. N. Onymous sends us to OLPCNews for an account of kids' reactions to the OLPC XO, and comments: "My first impression is, it's just like when you give a kid a box of Lego." The video of a 10-year-old and his younger sister replacing a mobo is pretty cool.

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  1. Amazing concept by Lord+Artemis · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just the fact that a couple of young kids can change a mobo in a laptop, something that most adults (or even many of the computer literate) are either unable to do or shy away from doing, is something to be said for this project.

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  2. missing the point? by Uksi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What is the point of the kids being able to replace the motherboard? That's about as bad of a metric of usefulness of a computer as you can get. What if they couldn't at all figure out how to do it? Would that make for a bad OLPC?

    What I want to know is whether kids can actually do anything useful/interesting on these laptops.