[OLPC_Boston] OLPC_Boston Digest, Vol 3, Issue 13

Diane Serley olpc.aunti.mame at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 14:41:45 EDT 2008


Mike,
my eeePC is the $300 model - the most basic. no webcam, linux -- basically
their direct competition to the XO.

I will be at MIT this weekend.

Diane

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Abe fakemen <jrghoull at gmail.com> wrote:

> Diane, which version did you get?
>
> Those machines started out as direct competition to the XO-1, almost a sort
> of "Americanized XO" if you will. However the company has shown that they
> are not looking to control the sub-notebook market by slowly shifting their
> line to computers that are more along the line of the machines that companie
> such as Dell and HP sell. However, since Asus cant really get a foot into
> their market yet, Asus is still selling laptops and notebooks which hint at
> the sub notebook/pc market, but only to differate themselves from the
> competition.
>
> which brings me back to the original question...which did you get? one of
> the original and probably best ones off of e bay or one of the new 500
> dollar ones?
>
> also, will you be at MIT this saturday or no? apparently i havent be doing
> as good of a job as i thought i have when it comes to reading these weekly e
> mails so i am trying to make sure that this time around i know who is/isnt
> going to be there and whats going on
>
> speaking of which...
>
> @michelle
>
> whats the developers room that you mentioned you started about?
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:00 PM, <olpc_boston-request at lists.laptop.org>
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>> From: "Diane Serley" <olpc.aunti.mame at gmail.com>
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>> Hey everybody --
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>> I've just acquired an Asus eeePC and will be bringing it with me on
>> Saturday
>> to the OpenJam if anyone wants to play wiht it!
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>> Diane
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