On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Illinois, as I said somewhere in this thread, wants to put laptops<br>
into 300 schools to start.</blockquote><div><br>Just a quick question, probably off-topic, but is Illinois interested in giving kids <b>XO's</b> or <b>laptops</b>?<br><br>Because if Illinois is thinking "laptop computers" then neither the State of Illinois nor the OLPC educational initiative will benefit from a discussion about XO's.<br>
<br>If you're looking for a laptop solution, then you really do need to be talking to the Dell, Apple and Microsoft crowd. OLPC can't help you there. <br><br>And if you're looking to get XO's into the hands of Illinois kids, it seems to me your first task is to convince the Illinois Department of Education that a <b>laptop</b> solution is less appropriate than an <b>education</b> solution. <br>
<br>Either way, referring to the XO as a laptop is a lose-lose situation.<br><br></div></div>-- <br>Steve Holton<br><a href="mailto:sph0lt0n@gmail.com">sph0lt0n@gmail.com</a> <br>