XO-2

Joshua N Pritikin jpritikin at pobox.com
Fri May 23 00:14:29 EDT 2008


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:59:41PM -0400, John Watlington wrote:
>> My speculation is that OLPC is not replacing XO-1 hardware with XO-2.
>> Rather, both form factors can co-exist because they serve different
>> enough markets.
>
> The loss of a keyboard is mourned.   But so much of the activities the 
> young kids that OLPC is targetting do are more manual and direct.

Yah, that occurred to me after I sent the email. Maybe the touch screen 
approach will work great for younger kids. So perhaps XO-2 form can 
target ages 3 to 8 years and XO-1 form can continue to target 7 to 12 
years (or to 35 years, in my case :-).



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