OLPC Available to the Public Early 2008

Zoxed writes "The BBC is reporting that the OLPC will be available to the public early next year on a buy-2-get-1 basis through eBay. With its cheap price, fully open spec. and full/open hardware support for Linux, expandability, 2W rating and LinuxBIOS booting it sounds like an embedded-Linux hackers favorite new toy."

Re:Will it be the _exact_ same laptop?

[Qzukk]

Cause if it is the exact same, and they have now created a $200 value for the laptops, they can now easily be sold to collect the money, instead of the intended educational value...

Yep. Exactly like how PBS telethons have encouraged the mugging of ladies carrying bags or men sipping coffee by setting the value of cloth bags and mugs at $120.

Re:Good present for grandparents as well?

[Anonymous Coward]

Umm.....

You want to steal from a child today - you steal 4 Gig of Ram, a dual core processor, a $250 iPod and a couple of ounces of crack.

Re:Couple Thoughts: Case Color and Good Idea..

[SoCalChris]

I'd be tempted to pick one up for $300 to play with myself...

Hey, you can play with yourself without a $300 laptop. Kids everywhere have been doing that for free, for thousands of years.

Re:Then you can buy it for $300

[WED Fan]

Judging from all the email I get asking me to help move millions of dollars out of Africa, I think Africans have enough computers. I think they need more financial advisors to help them move that money.

Re:No hand crank!

[gardyloo]

I asked for a hand crank, instead I get some yo-yo thing. Humpfh.

        My god! I think you may have just read your father's mind!

(kidding, kidding. Couldn't resist)

Re:cool

[Anonymous Coward]

My two year old has been running Ubuntu for over a year now with no problems.

Did anyone catch this? You lead us to believe your child has been "using" Ubuntu since before they were a year old. Seems to be a bit of a reach. I mean Ubuntu is pretty easy but a 1 year old using apt-get seems to be a stretch.

Re:cool

[God'sDuck]

I caught it, but was too busy trying to figure out how he installed Ubuntu on his two-year-old to respond.

Re:OLPC?

[bdonalds]

When did you last hear of starving children in Lybia for example?

True...actually, I have never heard of Lybia at all! :)