On Apr 28, 2010, at 3:48 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:40 AM, John Watlington <w...@laptop.org> wrote: > > We are in the midst of changing the bottom half of the XO-1/XO-1.5 > laptop to greatly improve the repairability of the keyboard. The new > keyboards will be removable after first unscrewing a screw underneath > each battery latch. At the same time, a non-membrane keyboard > will be available for use with the laptop. > > The following are the keyboard layouts and legends for these > new keyboards. Much thanks to Walter Bender for developing > these given a bad set of constraints. > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_English_Non-membrane_Keyboard > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Spanish_Non-membrane_Keyboard > > Hi, > > does that mean that XO-1s are still being produced and the production lines > will be updated to include the new bottom half? Or is only going to produce > new XO-1 bottom halfs as spare / replacement parts for deployments?
XO-1 production is winding down as XO-1.5 production ramps up. No XO-1s will be produced with the new bottom half. The new base units/keyboards will be phased in for XO-1.5 laptops in a couple of months. > Any ideas whether the non-membrane keyboard will be available in single > quantities (via ilovemyxo for example) so people who aren't too confident > about their Dremel skills can also upgrade their XO-1 / XO-1.5s (I'm mainly > thinking abotu G1G1 donors here). We will make base assemblies (the entire lower half, which would include a new touchpad and removable keyboard) available as a spare part, making it likely that you will be able to purchase one through your favorite parts dealer. One complication is that the labeling (serial number/certifications) for the laptop is part of this base --- we haven't figured out how to deal with that yet. Regards, wad _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel