We have just today received 2 of the XO-1.75 prototype B1 without touch screen. They arrived with a serial adaptor for updating the firmware. <br>
The documentation is a bit chaotic so it's hard to work out what build
and firmware should be on it. We spent the first few hours testing on an
old build with old firmware thinking we had updated to the latest. We now have build 36 customised Sugar 0.92.4 and firmware Q4B07 (note that the firmware doesn't appear in the "about my computer" but does appear on pressing escape during startup). <br>
<br>One has the membrane keyboard and the other has clicky keys The clicky keys are very cramped, especially in the bottom right hand corner, and will take a while to learn to type on (though probably fine for smaller hands). Not sure how the gear button could operate with the clicky keyboard as
it seems when you push it, the whole key is pressed, not just the gear
end, but the shift alt v combination does bring up view source. <br>The alternative key glyphs don't work yet. <br>The frame key has moved from top right corner to f6 - a problem for the membrane keyboard as the key pictures don't match. <br>
The touchpad lets you tap the pad so you don't have to click with the button to select. <br>The microphone and camera don't work yet. In testing the speakers we
found the sound to be scratchy like there are buffer issues. <br><br>They boot faster than the XO-1.5 but the activities don't appear to load faster, in fact lots fail to start (e.g. physics wont start). The activities that fail to start seem to need native libraries -- we see lots of missing shared object error messages in the logs. <br>
<br>Thanks for sending us these to test. We'll watch for any testing requests as well as continuing to try things ourselves. <br><br>Tabitha<br>