Kids Review the OLPC
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.
Like sell it on ebay for food?
Engineering is the art of compromise.
The concept of the OLPC looks good - on paper. But the truth is people don't want what amounts to toy computers. They want real computers to do real things on with real software, all things that can be had with real laptops that don't cost much more than this thing.
You forgot to allow for one fact: these kids are niggers.