THANK GOD! It's about time the publicity started to turn on this project.
I've been fighting my own little private war against Mr. Negroponte's XO project for some time and it's for just these reasons. The XO has always been a crappy notebook. It was "built by press release" so it looked real good on paper. All the politicians and pundits could smile and praise the $199 computer that would bring poor kids into the next century. While behind the scenes anyone who took a real look knew it wasn't usable.
So Mr Negroponte and a bunch of crooked politicians in third world countries get to look great by foisting crap onto already taken avantage of poor kids.
I've been fighting my own little private war against Mr. Negroponte's XO project for some time and it's for just these reasons. The XO has always been a crappy notebook. It was "built by press release" so it looked real good on paper. All the politicians and pundits could smile and praise the $199 computer that would bring poor kids into the next century. While behind the scenes anyone who took a real look knew it wasn't usable.
So Mr Negroponte and a bunch of crooked politicians in third world countries get to look great by foisting crap onto already taken avantage of poor kids.