Info on Deployed XOs

[Kim Quirk]

Greg,

>From Peru I have just found out that the first 40,000 laptops they deployed
to children are build 656 with default activities. I thought the work that
Walter did to help them choose activities and match it with 703 meant that
their laptops were upgraded, but they were not.

The next order is 100,000. They will be delivered in batches of about
10,000-20,000 every month for the next several months. They plan to upgrade
these to build 703, but they are still not completely satisfied with their
content (which we put together for them as per703-6). They hope to get us a
new drop of content so we can make a final build for them in the next week
or two (per703-7).

They plan to upgrade and hand out these laptops as they get them, even
though they are getting to the end of their school year.

In parallel, they will start testing 8.2 when it is ready and expect to
update their manuals and teacher training to match the new features and any
new activities they want to use for their 2009 school year.

They are working out a program where the children will all upgrade their
laptops at the beginning of the next school year, March 2009. It is expected
they will use a version of 8.2 at that time.

They are thinking about the question as to whether the children will
'cleaninstall' their laptops. They think this is ok for the children, but we
may need a backup solution for the teachers.

Kim


On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm working the manufacturing side and the human side. Just wanted to
> know if we have any data coming from pings.
>
> Even if I know how many XOs are on the internet that would be useful
> data. Give me what you have or let me know where to find it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg S
>
> BTW spell check changed occasionally to unsocially in my last post,
> sorry. Nothing unsocial about it IMHO
>
> Richard A. Smith wrote:
> > John Watlington wrote:
> >> No granularity loss due to NATs
> >>
> >> The problem with using this info is that it only measures
> >> laptops with Internet connectivity, a decreasing minority.
> >>
> >> Theoretically, we have the mapping from serial number
> >> to deployment.
> >
> > Not so much.  Quanta does not push the SKU to the mfgdata server. So we
> > have a sort of mapping.  Glad you reminded me. Thats on my list to get
> > quanta to change.
> >
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