I just put a post on Groklaw about the OLPC campaign. I thought that
I'd add it here for advice on getting or not getting one and because I
think my post will end up in the can.

The Economist puts OLPC to rest
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 05 2008 @ 05:55 AM EST
This is perhaps off-topic but then again, perhaps not. Any way The
Economist has a very depressing review of the XO: One clunky laptop
per child "Great idea. Shame about the mediocre computer"

My reply:

It's dated January the fourth. Perhaps that means last year? So how
did he know what Intel was going to do?

This is a comment from the link:

This leads to the final problem that has done the most
to disappoint OLPC's fans: the hubris, arrogance and
occasional self-righteousness of OLPC workers. They
treated all criticism as enemy fire to be deflected and
quashed rather than considered and possibly taken on
board.

I listed all the complaints that one poster on here wrote about when
he was sent a dud and the post -if not the entire thread, was pulled.
So don't come looking for too much parity here.

I'm not saying the article is accurate. It sounds like it was written
by an Intel salesman. Just that things can get slightly unecumenical
on here about certain topics.

Without being able to get my hands on one, I can't speak for myself.
Then I asked on another post what the reason was for not making them
available in supermarkets in North America and Western Europe.

So if it isn't clunky and tired, what is the reason?