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Upgrading my OLPC XO (thinking about it)

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

I haven’t done enough with my XO since I purchased it.  Thought I’d take another look at it, but thought I should upgrade it before I start installing things again.

It’s all still pretty confusing.  All the steps I see seem not-too-complicated.  The problem is I’m not sure if those are the steps I’m supposed to doing.  I think there is firmware, OS and software upgrades but I’m not 100% sure.

I am sure I won’t be doing this upgrade today….

There are “activity packs” too.  I think if I run “update.1″ I lose all the basic activities.  I thing we need need a simple G1G1 update that updates everything to a newer version of what I purchased back in December 2007.

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I just increased the quality of my XO experience by ten!

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

I just made working on the XO seem so much better! All I did was plug in a USB mouse! Honestly, I think some of my issues with getting used to it have revolved more around getting used to the track-pad than the OS.

The first 90-seconds with the mouse makes me fell like I’m using a different computer. I’m totally floored at how much more intuitive everything seems now. The operating system feels like I just got a upgrade. If you’ve got one of these laptops, get a mouse and try it out!

Okay, so now I’m talking it up too much and you’ll have expectations that are too high, but you do have to try it.

FYI - A USB Keyboard works too!

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