Kids Review the OLPC

A. N. Onymous sends us to OLPCNews for an account of kids' reactions to the OLPC XO, and comments: "My first impression is, it's just like when you give a kid a box of Lego." The video of a 10-year-old and his younger sister replacing a mobo is pretty cool.

Neato!

[Anonymous Coward]

My first impression is, it's just like when you give a kid a box of Lego

"These computers sure make a cool fort!"

Re:Amazing concept

[psychicsword]

When I was 10 all I could do is take apart my remote control car, get shocked by and old TV that I took apart, and wish I had a computer to mess with. I can't wait to see how this changes the world.

12-year-old post

[prxp]

From TFA:

Then twelve year old "SG" made a surprisingly well-written literary statement about the $100 laptop" on Freedom to Tinker: My expectations for this computer were, I must admit, not very high. But it completely took me by surprise. It was cleverly designed, imaginative, straightforward, easy to understand (I was given no instructions on how to use it. It was just, "Here. Figure it out yourself."), useful and simple, entertaining, dependable, really a "stick to the basics" kind of computer. It's the perfect laptop for the job. Great for first time users, it sets the mood by offering a bunch of entertaining and easy games and a camera.

Damn! I've gotta work harder on my posts from now on!

New World Meet the Old World

[Anonymous Coward]

Training third world assembly workers by the back door, eh? Sounds cool. Liberal academics hijacked by CIA sponsored hegemony. I love it! Where can I send a crate of these?

uh oh

[Carbon016]

Those kids didn't use proper anti-static safety protocols when replacing that motherboard! At this rate, it's going to be twenty laptops per child!

Child labor

[Zero Degrez]

Apparently Mitch Bradley even believes that a 10-year old could replace an XO motherboard.

I don't see why not; 10-year olds have been replacing motherboards in China for years.

Re:Is this real world testing?

[cp.tar]

Not everybody in Africa is hungry. Many people that we would consider poor have mobile phones there. They use them for their business.

Actually, some of those people are quite rich and would only need your assistance with getting vast sums of money from their corrupt countries...

Re:Is this real world testing?

[yada21]

the manual dexterity of a 10 year old is adequate to the task of disassembling the OLPC, pulling the motherboard, then putting it all back together again.

So employing kids to build them would be a good way of getting the cost down?