Comments on: Risks--and rewards--of XO laptop

After reading a BBC reporter's account of what his 9-year-old son could do merely days after getting his hands on the XO laptop, I wondered whether my 8-year-old daughter would fare as well.

[bitweaver]

I gave my 5 year old son an XO laptop right after Christmas for him to explore on his own. He came back a few minutes later with his name in it as a user! By the end of the day we was exploring games and taking pictures of his sister. He totes it around as naturally as I did a lunch box when I was his age.

When you have two kids, of course you can't give to one without giving to the other. In a few days I expect I'll receive a second XO laptop for my 2-1/2 year old and we'll get to try out the connectivity features and continue the experiment on a totally different level.

Negrapone: 2, Doubt: 0

[jaredwilliam]

I'm so glad to read reviews like this - my idea this Christmas was to buy XO laptops "in the name of" for my nearest and dearest, but many reviews are negative, whining about its size and lack of Windoze. This re-encouraged me - the truth is, that's not the point - and putting Office and other proprietary programs on it is just so frustrating - this isn't about putting specific computer programs and productivity suites in kids' hands, it's about putting COMPUTING in their hands, and I hope more people realize that's what Negraponte has done (and Intel has tried not to do).

[tomagni]

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