Colombia Signs Up For OLPC Laptops With Windows

Reader Cowards Anonymous writes with this excerpt from Good Gear Guide: "Colombia will become the second country to use the One Laptop Per Child Project's (OLPC) XO laptops running Microsoft Windows XP in schools after signing an agreement for pilot programs in two towns. Schools in the towns of Quetame and Chia will be outfitted with the small green XO laptops developed by the OLPC. The pilot programs are expected to expand over time."

Tragedy

[Divebus]

Isn't there enough pain and suffering down there?

The real question:

[Smidge207]

Will they be reinforced to stop a 9mm round?

=Smidge=

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Re:Tragedy

[Smelly Jeffrey]

According to the spec [laptop.org], the XOs have a 433 MHz CPU and 256 MB of RAM.
Windows XP requires [microsoft.com], a 233 MHz CPU and 64 MB of RAM.

I can just picture Microsoft suggesting that the XO is overpowered for the job, and that they should run Vista instead!

Cool

[Rik Sweeney]

Now they won't need drugs mules anymore because they can simply email us the cocaine!

Re:The real question:

[Eternauta3k]

Whenever I see a moderation like (Score:0, Funny) I feel "I'm about to laugh at something I should be offended by"

Re:Tragedy

[Ethanol-fueled]

You should have been modded funny instead: according to Microsoft.com, the requirements for bottom-of-the-barrel Vista Home Basic are:

- 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
- 512 MB of system memory
- 20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
- Support for DirectX 9 graphics and 32 MB of graphics memory
- DVD-ROM drive
- Audio Output
- Internet access (fees may apply)

No way in hell that they're going to force that upon Micro-Laptops. If anything Microsoft are shooting themselves in the foot by keeping XP alive. Even Microsoft wouldn't be naive enough to believe that even a stripped-down version of Vista would run on one of those!

Re:Tragedy

[Hal_Porter]

They must be on crack. Oh wait.