XO-1.5 HS version announced

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Tiago Marques <tiagomnm at gmail.com> wrote:
> From previous e-mails I know there were some challenges fitting the default
> layout but I'm still kind of surprised that it's become final.
> Best of luck with deployments and do give some feedback from deployments if
> possible. I personally wouldn't look twice at a laptop with a keyboard like
> that but I'm curious to see the real world feedback.
> Best regards,
> Tiago

For what it is worth, feedback was solicited (and received) from
deployments. But as you suggest, the only way to really know is to get
the machines into the field.

-walter

> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>> tiago wrote:
>>  > Hi,
>>  >
>>  > Will you be keeping that arrow key arrangement or is it still a
>> prototype?
>>
>> that's the final arrangement.
>>
>> paul
>>
>>  >
>>  > Best regards,
>>  > Tiago
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:41 AM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org>
>> wrote:
>>  >
>>  > >
>>  > > As usual, by a random news outlet:
>>  > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10309116.stm
>>  > >
>>  > > These laptops are the XO-1.5 motherboard, but with a non-membrane
>>  > > keyboard.  Thanks to Walter Bender for the layout, visible at:
>>  > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Spanish_Non-membrane_Keyboard
>>  > >
>>  > > The exciting news, for those who have been working with the
>>  > > traditional XO, is that we've redesigned the lower half to make
>>  > > the keyboard easy to remove for repair.   We will phase this in
>>  > > across all XO laptops as tooling allows.
>>  > >
>>  > > The color scheme of the HS laptops will be dark/light blue.
>>  > >
>>  > > Cheers,
>>  > > wad
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