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Subido el 6 de febrero de 2008 por EducaMadrid

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Reviewing the OLPC - One Laptop Per Child laptop. Produced by the Financial Aid Podcast and the Student Loan Network.

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Well, hey folks, a lot of people have been asking about the OLPC or the One Laptop per 00:00:00
Child computer, what it can do, its capabilities and things like that. 00:00:10
So I thought I'd take a couple of minutes to talk about it. 00:00:14
Let's grab mine here. 00:00:17
So here it is. 00:00:19
This is the machine itself. 00:00:20
You can see the keys on there are really, really tiny. 00:00:21
If you are thinking as an adult about using this for any kind of productivity application, 00:00:25
not so much. 00:00:30
It does have USB ports on the sides here and then on this side here, three USB ports. 00:00:31
I've tried a keyboard and a mouse, standard Microsoft ones. 00:00:37
They work fine. 00:00:41
So you can use it for that. 00:00:42
In terms of functionality and stuff, let's go to the home screen here. 00:00:46
So this is the home screen. 00:00:50
I'm sure you've seen the application demos and stuff, but it's pretty straightforward. 00:00:52
There's not a lot of labeling or language stuff here. 00:00:56
So I assume that's partly because it will be universal and you won't have to do a whole 00:00:59
lot of translation. 00:01:04
And also partly because I guess maybe they're assuming kids think iconically. 00:01:06
Pressing the little bracketing button on the side here brings up their equivalent of the 00:01:11
dock and stuff. 00:01:16
And there's a whole bunch of applications on here. 00:01:17
There's a lot of really good ones too. 00:01:18
There is one called TamTam Edit, and it's a lot like a GarageBand-esque kind of application. 00:01:21
Main difference between it and, say, GarageBand is that it doesn't have any MIDI inputs, but 00:01:32
it may be what you want for a computer that has a 430 megahertz processor. 00:01:37
There's a lot of good applications on here. 00:01:42
There's Camera. 00:01:44
Let's go ahead and turn this on here. 00:01:45
Sound launch is slow. 00:01:50
Booting it up is slow. 00:01:52
Again, what do you expect? 00:01:53
No hard drive and a 430 megahertz processor. 00:01:55
So we're not exactly talking about a MacBook, and it's not supposed to be a MacBook. 00:01:58
It's supposed to be for people who've never had anything at all whatsoever. 00:02:03
So here we can see the webcam. 00:02:07
This is a bit meta. 00:02:11
Camera itself is right there. 00:02:14
And then you can switch to photo, video, and audio recording. 00:02:16
The video records in 15-second segments, at least in this application. 00:02:21
Let's do a quick record here. 00:02:25
The quality is not terrific, but again, that's probably something that can be tuned in software 00:02:28
and things like that. 00:02:35
Nine, eight seconds remaining here on the video. 00:02:37
There we go. 00:02:41
This is Infinite Tunnel. 00:02:43
And then at the bottom, when it's done recording, it processes it and makes the recording available 00:02:48
down here in this little dock-like area. 00:02:51
There's not a lot of documentation. 00:02:55
In fact, the only documentation is a sheet of paper that says, among other things, do 00:02:56
not leave this out in the rain. 00:03:00
Using it, it's not super easy, but again, not supposed to be. 00:03:02
It's not supposed to be a commercial-grade anything. 00:03:07
Let's turn, hit the activity button, for example, here, to quit any application. 00:03:12
If you go to the activity menu, you can then stop out of the application here. 00:03:16
In terms of networking, it's pretty cool. 00:03:24
Here's the network neighborhood screen, and you can see it's locating all the wireless 00:03:28
access points. 00:03:33
The range on the antenna is amazing. 00:03:34
It's astonishing how much range this has. 00:03:36
Connecting, particularly to encrypted networks, is difficult. 00:03:40
If you can find open networks, it's great for that. 00:03:45
And again, in the scenarios that this is going to be used in, we have village-to-village 00:03:48
or house-to-house one access point, probably not a lot of concern about people intercepting 00:03:52
radio communications. 00:03:58
This will probably work just fine. 00:03:59
For a corporate world, not so much. 00:04:01
And again, it's not what it's for. 00:04:04
The other things, the tablet mode works terrific. 00:04:08
Let's switch this over here. 00:04:10
There is no velocity sensor, obviously, so you have to do the poor man's velocity sensor. 00:04:14
Press this button right here, and it'll flip the screen around until it's at the orientation 00:04:18
that you want it to be at. 00:04:22
Very handy. 00:04:24
And then, you know, I just put down the antennas and stuff. 00:04:25
It's hefty. 00:04:29
It's despite being, you know, looking like plastic, it's got a lot of weight to it. 00:04:31
It's pretty impressive. 00:04:35
There's an SD card slot on the bottom here that you can put additional memory in. 00:04:36
Speakers, very, very tinny, but again, you know, what do you want for 100 bucks or the 00:04:40
target of 100 bucks? 00:04:46
There's two game controllers, actually, here. 00:04:47
Not a lot of games to start out with, but I can see game developers doing a lot of stuff 00:04:50
with this because 433 megahertz is more than enough, especially if you have, like, emulation 00:04:54
software. 00:04:59
Think about the old Donkey Kong games and Pac-Man and stuff that we used to enjoy as 00:05:00
kids. 00:05:05
I can run on a wristwatch, so this clearly has the horsepower for it. 00:05:06
Other things, like I said, it's not as responsive as a higher quality notebook or a higher cost 00:05:10
notebook, but I think for the kids that are going to be using this in countries and villages 00:05:17
around the world, and even here in the United States, more than enough, more than enough. 00:05:22
Let's pull up one more thing here, pull up the word processor. 00:05:27
There were some criticisms of the project initially that were saying, well, you know, 00:05:31
this has not going to have any kind of productivity. 00:05:35
There's a full working version of Firefox on here. 00:05:39
These days, with Google Docs, with all that's, you know, everything and its cousin, you don't 00:05:41
need, you almost don't need an Office suite. 00:05:47
You have Google Docs, you have Google Spreadsheets, Google Presentation, Firefox full browser 00:05:50
means you can access all that, Zoho Docs, Zoho Database, and even on here, the local 00:05:55
word processor and stuff is more than enough for people to write and do stuff. 00:06:00
So it's, like I said, it's a fantastic machine for what it is. 00:06:06
Don't compare it, don't benchmark it against a $3,000 MacBook or a $5,000 Alienware box. 00:06:09
That's no comparison to them, but it is enough for kids who have never had a computer in 00:06:16
their lives to suddenly be able to access the internet and other computers with this. 00:06:22
It'll be real interesting to see what happens with this in the coming years. 00:06:28
So that's my short review, and I hope what you found useful. 00:06:31
Let me know what you think. 00:06:35
There should be a comment button down here somewhere, and we'll talk to you soon. 00:06:36
Take care. 00:06:40
One final note about the OLPC. 00:06:42
A lot of people, again, have talked about its performance and stuff as being not terribly 00:06:44
great. 00:06:47
I have a Windows laptop at home, an old one. 00:06:48
It's not that old. 00:06:51
It's a Hewlett-Packard something or other. 00:06:52
2 GHz Pentium 4, 2 GB RAM, 150 GB hard drive, bells and whistles, DVD player, all that stuff, 00:06:55
and Windows XP. 00:07:04
It is, thanks to spyware, prevention tools, antivirus tools, this, that, and the other 00:07:05
thing, all these different things to protect Windows against itself, the HP is slower than 00:07:11
the OLPC. 00:07:16
So it takes the OLPC a good minute or so to boot up. 00:07:18
It takes applications a good minute to get going. 00:07:21
On the HP, it's longer than that. 00:07:25
So for people who are comparing it, you know, if you compare it to a $3,000 MacBook, yeah, 00:07:27
you're going to be disappointed. 00:07:31
If you compare it to a Windows machine, it actually might be faster. 00:07:32
Just food for thought. 00:07:35
Take care, and I'll talk to you all soon. 00:07:36
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One Laptop per Child Foundation
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Fecha:
6 de febrero de 2008 - 13:55
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Enlace Relacionado:
Brewster Kahle y One Laptop per Child Foundation
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