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Can XO 2 reignite OLPC? 1:38pm on 21 May 2008 I have spoken to people who have worked with children in Africa, from what they saw a laptop is the last thing they need. There are more basic needs like tables, chairs, buildings, food, clean water and teachers.

All the money, time and effort in designing the XO2 could have been better utilised towards these more pressing needs.

Leave the cutting edge designing of new form factors to the Apple/Dell/Asus of the world with their cash mountains who can afford to design new technology to support the new casing.

In my opinion, the OLPC project should be focusing on delivering existing technology at a cheaper price (or even free by running as a charity), "one computer per school" would be a more realistic and wider reaching project.

Also, it is not the developed worlds place to debate which OS should be installed on the OLPC, the children should be taught all the major OS`s to give them as much information and a head start as possible.

There will never be a winner of the OS debate and it has been going on for 30 years, just give it up and stop preaching your favorite OS's to everyone else, its a free world, we can all choose, the recipients of the OLPC should also be allowed to try out and choose which OS they want.

Recyling projects already exist that send our old computers to developing countries, this has already reached more people than the OLPC, so the BBC should publicise these projects.

Even in a developed world a laptop is way down the list of needs of child at school.

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