[Olpc-za] PCMag review of the XO

Morgan Collett morgan.collett at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 06:22:22 EST 2007


http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2223940,00.asp

Minor nit-pick:

> The Classmate PC will have the benefit of being x86-compatible, so
> it will run Windows XP or various versions of Linux (the XO-1 can
> run only its custom version of Fedora Linux).

The XO is indeed x86 compatible, and the SD card reader was apparently
added at Microsoft's request in their attempt to squeeze some version
of Windows onto it.

Also, there are reports of running Debian on the laptop.

Morgan


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