Naz -
Thanks for the thoughts!
> IMHO it's better to delay the release of the 1.75 and force putting in
> a touchscreen.
It's not a matter of time, it's a matter of the price deployments are willing
to pay for it. The feedback we've heard so far is that since the XO-1.75
without a touchscreen is every bit as functional as an XO-1.5 is, deployments
cannot justify paying the noticeable additional cost for a touchscreen. If
that changes, fine, but I think it's unlikely. Cost is more important than
touch input functionality (again, to XO-1.75 end users, not tablet software
developers).
> IMHO the next XO would be irrelevant to the public without it
> as it would offer no significant change outside the hood from the 1.5.
No, but an XO-1.75 that uses half the power and therefore provides twice the
battery life is an XO that is now available to many children who don't have the
electrons to use XO-1.5 machines, or for whom a 4-hour battery life is
inadequate but an 8-hour battery life would be quite useful.
- Ed
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