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OLPC XO First Impressions
After missing out on a Modo many years ago (if anyone has one they want to sell, let me know). I’ve become somewhat of an ‘cool’ electronics obsessive. So when OLPC the people behind the $100 XO laptop started their Give1Get1 program last year, I was there day 1 with Amex in hand.Well it finally arrived and here are my, and others first impressions.
First Instinct Go Online - not so easy: I’m sure that WEP and WPA networks aren’t their #1 consumer priority, so I wasn’t surprised that networking was a little fudgey, but I look forward to some of it being cleaned up. I have yet to connect to any secure network (WEP at work doesn’t work, WEP Transitional at home through Apple Airport Extreme is well documented as a nightmare - yet I still can’t connect). Luckily I have my open meraki mesh network at home for this exact reason and was able to connect to that throttled but open connection with no issue.