Give 1 Get 1 2008 Started in Europe and USA! (OLPC News)

I got two last year and have been tinkering with them off and on.

my take on them

I'm _very_ happy with the hardware, however the software still needs improvement

it's significantly better than it was a year ago, but still has a long ways to go.

the good news is that it's also relativly easy to put a 'standard' distro on these nowdays, they have very few things that are not upstream

with no power management (still the default, and the only option up until a few weeks ago), the battery lasts 3ish hours. however if you enable all the power saving options (enable sleep, turn off wifi, turn off the backlight) and use it as a reader you can get very good life out of it (I used it to follow a training pdf last week and after 8 hours it still had half it's battery left)

my personal opinion on the windows vs linux issue of some of the deployments is that while microsoft doesn't have clean hands the linux software was also not very good at the time the decisions needed to be made.

so get one, try the Sugar interface, put normal distros on it, and work to make it better (if only by making normal distros work well on it and shaming them into fixing up Sugar ;-)

I'm seriously considering getting 4 more this year.