Fwd: XO-1.5 HS version announced

[Tiago Marques]

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From: Tiago Marques <tiagomnm at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: XO-1.5 HS version announced
To: Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>


I feel it may be a tough sell against classmates, since the XO has so many
times been hammered for being different, even though not in a baed way. I
hope you hear good things from deployments.

One thing I might add is that everyone that worked on the membrane keyboard
should be congratulated - KUDOS!
To me, it is by far much better than most similarly sized netbooks
keyboards. Have tried a similar membrane one for desktops and it is so
inferior that it's unusable. I guess the letter spacing is helping it a lot
where as in netbooks it's frequent to press two keys at the same time by
mistake - so I don't really get why people would even bother with a "normal
one", especially without a form factor increase.

Best regards,
Tiago



On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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