I'm typing away on an EEE PC as well, which I love, but let's face it, the machine is not up for the task the OLPC is meant for.
The keyboard would last about a month if I gave this thing to my niece or nephew, you have to admit that it is rather cheap. Not to mention that the battery life is no where near the same specs as OLPC is.
I get about 2.5 hours out of mine, with wifi on, running xubuntu 7.10. The XO gets much better battery life, and is actually designed with more rugged (read: abusive) use in mind.
Throw in cool features like mesh networking and the ability to apparently charge it from a hand crank, and you quickly come to see that it's not even the same class of machine even though the size is the roughly the same.
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I'm typing away on an EEE PC as well, which I love, but let's face it, the machine is not up for the task the OLPC is meant for. The keyboard would last about a month if I gave this thing to my niece or nephew, you have to admit that it is rather cheap. Not to mention that the battery life is no where near the same specs as OLPC is. I get about 2.5 hours out of mine, with wifi on, running xubuntu 7.10. The XO gets much better battery life, and is actually designed with more rugged (read: abusive) use in mind. Throw in cool features like mesh networking and the ability to apparently charge it from a hand crank, and you quickly come to see that it's not even the same class of machine even though the size is the roughly the same.
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Hockey Night in Canada?
What Carrier are you with?
Bell Mobility offers some very competitively priced long distance plans.
Look at the Business Canada plans, which have an option of unlimited E/W starting at 6pm for an extra $32 a month.