OLPC at 23C3
29.12.2006 3:57
Yesterday I saw the prototype made by the One Laptop Per Child Project. It on displayed at the Wikipedia booth (I've heard that it was brought there by Samuel Klein, a veteran wikipedian who joined the OLPC effort a while ago).
My first thought after I've seen it was how small it is. It's barely half the size of my 12" Powerbook. Unfortunately this prototype didn't have the revolutionary LCD display they are planning for production models (or at least I haven't found a way to enable the back-light-off mode). The user interface is quite confusing - it's completely different from any other desktop environment I've used. I've watched some demonstration videos that were published by the OLPC team some time ago and still I didn't know how to do anything with it.
