XO-1.5 HS version announced

2010-06-14 Thread John Watlington
As usual, by a random news outlet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10309116.stm These laptops are the XO-1.5 motherboard, but with a non-membrane keyboard. Thanks to Walter Bender for the layout, visible at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Spanish_Non-membrane_Keyboard The exciting news, f

Re: XO-1.5 HS version announced

2010-06-15 Thread Tiago Marques
Hi, Will you be keeping that arrow key arrangement or is it still a prototype? Best regards, Tiago On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:41 AM, John Watlington wrote: > > As usual, by a random news outlet: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10309116.stm > > These laptops are the XO-1.5 motherboard,

Re: XO-1.5 HS version announced

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Fox
tiago wrote: > Hi, > > Will you be keeping that arrow key arrangement or is it still a prototype? that's the final arrangement. paul > > Best regards, > Tiago > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:41 AM, John Watlington wrote: > > > > > As usual, by a random news outlet: > > http://

Re: XO-1.5 HS version announced

2010-06-15 Thread ismael schinca
The smaller "ñ" key is a pity. Maybe the ctrl key in the left could have been shorter? The "ñ" is frequently used in spanish. Definately more than "w" or "k" for example. I guess field testing will prove if the smaller key next to the "enter" key ends up being a problem or not. The arrow layout is

Re: XO-1.5 HS version announced

2010-06-15 Thread Samuel Klein
Do you have any photos of the new design or keyboard? SJ On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:41 AM, John Watlington wrote: > > As usual, by a random news outlet: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10309116.stm > > These laptops are the XO-1.5 motherboard, but with a non-membrane > keyboard.  Thanks t

Re: XO-1.5 HS version announced

2010-06-15 Thread Tiago Marques
>From previous e-mails I know there were some challenges fitting the default layout but I'm still kind of surprised that it's become final. Best of luck with deployments and do give some feedback from deployments if possible. I personally wouldn't look twice at a laptop with a keyboard like that bu

Re: XO-1.5 HS version announced

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Fox
tiago wrote: > >From previous e-mails I know there were some challenges fitting the default > layout but I'm still kind of surprised that it's become final. > Best of luck with deployments and do give some feedback from deployments if > possible. I personally wouldn't look twice at a laptop wit

Re: XO-1.5 HS version announced

2010-06-16 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: > From previous e-mails I know there were some challenges fitting the default > layout but I'm still kind of surprised that it's become final. > Best of luck with deployments and do give some feedback from deployments if > possible. I personal

Fwd: XO-1.5 HS version announced

2010-06-17 Thread Tiago Marques
-- Forwarded message -- From: Tiago Marques Date: Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM Subject: Re: XO-1.5 HS version announced To: Walter Bender I feel it may be a tough sell against classmates, since the XO has so many times been hammered for being different, even though not in a