#7137 NORM Retriag: Renewed G1G1 needs a logistics solution, and perhaps an entre team.

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#7137: Renewed G1G1 needs a logistics solution, and perhaps an entre team.
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  Reporter:  sph0lt0n                 |       Owner:  djbclark                
      Type:  defect                   |      Status:  new                     
  Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  Retriage, Please!       
 Component:  infrastructure-internal  |     Version:  Mass Production Hardware
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Comment(by sph0lt0n):

 Replying to [comment:5 ffm]:
 > Replying to [comment:3 AlbertCahalan]:
 > > $400 won't cut it when numerous alternatives are available at that
 price and even below. It's not a bad idea to get production numbers up
 while making the laptop affordable to the less well off.
 >
 > I think you're missing the intent of the program. Many (although not
 all) of the donors wanted a laptop, and to also help the project. Don't
 forget that it's a 200USD edu. computing device plus 200USD tax-deductible
 donation.

 From the first G1G1 initiative, it's clear there were many people who
 expected to receive (and would have been better served by) a desktop-
 metaphor laptop computer. This observation leads us to conclude thet
 efforts to make the XO perform more like a desktop-metaphor computer would
 be welcomed.

 However, such efforts would necessarily come at the expense of making the
 XO better suited as an educational device for the sparse-infrastructure
 environment envisioned prior to the G1G1 initiative.

 I agree with Albert that trying to sell the XO as 'just a laptop' at a
 G1G1 price point of $400 is likely to be less effective in the current
 market. It fails to promote the XO for the strengths of the original
 design. Low power is nice, mesh is nice, water resistant is nice, but the
 competition will exclude these costly features and instead include higher
 power (and more power hunrgy) processors, better WiFi support, better
 broadband application support, etc. for the same price.)

 The two goals are in fundamental conflict. The options are to abandon one
 or the other objective, or form two seperate teams with individual goals
 to address the individual program needs.

 However, if the decision is made to abandon the "desktop-metaphor laptop
 computer" objective, but still use the "educational device" as a fund
 raising focus, a logistics solution will still be necessary.

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