<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Tiago Marques</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tiagomnm@gmail.com">tiagomnm@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM<br>
Subject: Re: XO-1.5 HS version announced<br>To: Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>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.<br>
<br>One thing I might add is that everyone that worked on the membrane keyboard should be congratulated - KUDOS!<br>
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.<br>
<br>Best regards,<br><font color="#888888">Tiago</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Tiago Marques <<a href="mailto:tiagomnm@gmail.com" target="_blank">tiagomnm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> From previous e-mails I know there were some challenges fitting the default<br>
> layout but I'm still kind of surprised that it's become final.<br>
> Best of luck with deployments and do give some feedback from deployments if<br>
> possible. I personally wouldn't look twice at a laptop with a keyboard like<br>
> that but I'm curious to see the real world feedback.<br>
> Best regards,<br>
> Tiago<br>
<br>
</div>For what it is worth, feedback was solicited (and received) from<br>
deployments. But as you suggest, the only way to really know is to get<br>
the machines into the field.<br>
<br>
-walter<br>
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> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Paul Fox <<a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org" target="_blank">pgf@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> tiago wrote:<br>
>> > Hi,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Will you be keeping that arrow key arrangement or is it still a<br>
>> prototype?<br>
>><br>
>> that's the final arrangement.<br>
>><br>
>> paul<br>
>><br>
>> ><br>
>> > Best regards,<br>
>> > Tiago<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:41 AM, John Watlington <<a href="mailto:wad@laptop.org" target="_blank">wad@laptop.org</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > As usual, by a random news outlet:<br>
>> > > <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10309116.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10309116.stm</a><br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > These laptops are the XO-1.5 motherboard, but with a non-membrane<br>
>> > > keyboard. Thanks to Walter Bender for the layout, visible at:<br>
>> > > <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Spanish_Non-membrane_Keyboard" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Spanish_Non-membrane_Keyboard</a><br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > The exciting news, for those who have been working with the<br>
>> > > traditional XO, is that we've redesigned the lower half to make<br>
>> > > the keyboard easy to remove for repair. We will phase this in<br>
>> > > across all XO laptops as tooling allows.<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > The color scheme of the HS laptops will be dark/light blue.<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > Cheers,<br>
>> > > wad<br>
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Walter Bender<br>
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