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I got to play with the new Marvell Armada PXA618 powered One Laptop Per Child XO-1.75 laptop during the ARM Technology Conference. It seems to already be very stable and run very fast, although this is still a beta prototype, with beta software, OLPC, Red Hat, Marvell still have some work to do to optimize the software and complete the hardware so that it can be mass produced and shipped to children around the world starting early next year. Here in this video I walk around with it outdoors for a few minutes and show you some of how it looks like.

I’m reviewing the ARM9 powered Menq EasyPC E790:

CNET News senior writer Ina Fried talks to Kara Tsuboi about what’s different in the Windows version.

Leo Laporte (of http://twit.tv) and John C Dvorak (who previously bashed the OLPC project in one of his PC Magazine columns) check out the OLPC XO laptop on the Cranky Geeks episode 104. You can download the whole episode at http://www.crankygeeks.com/2008/02/episode_104_hostile_takeover_f_1.php.

Charbax is the webmaster of this OLPC video aggregating site and has been posting OLPC videos on the Internet for more than 2 years. In this video, I give my current opinion on the OLPC project:

Filmed by Franck Perrier at the Lift08 conference

Review by Gary Krakow, technology editor at MSNBC.com.