On May 22, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 02:14:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Thu, 22 May 2008, C. Scott Ananian wrote: >>> All this is just to say that "ease of typing English" and "keyfeel >>> like a Remington typewriter" are not the only items on our list of >>> desired keyboard features. >> >> it's not 'keyfeel like a remington typewriter', it's enough >> keyfeel to be >> able to touch-type. it doesn't take much, but I haven't seen any >> touchscreen that has any.
The loss of a keyboard is mourned. But so much of the activities the young kids that OLPC is targetting do are more manual and direct. The desire to maximize display area (but clam-shell, not tablet, for protection while being transported) led to the proposed form factor. I can think of a few ways to integrate a keyboard with this new design. But then we continue the huge production/logistical problem of generating keyboards (and spares keyboards) for each country. > My speculation is that OLPC is not replacing XO-1 hardware with XO-2. > Rather, both form factors can co-exist because they serve different > enough markets. I think that both form factors will co-exist for several years. 2 will face an adoption curve similar that faced by the XO, not a substitution of existing XO sales on the first day of production. I hope that we do a good enough job on 2 that it will eventually shut down XO sales, but Quanta will continue to build and sell them as long as countries or distributors buy them. > Is there offical thinking on this? Not yet. Cheers, wad _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel