a thousand pounds of laptops

November 28, 2006 in OLPC | 13 comments

Today we received the first large shipment of laptops from the factory. I’m told it’s about a thousand pounds. The boxes are all labeled with the countries the keyboards are built for: The US, Nigeria, Thailand, Argentina, Brazil and Libya.

Each of the large boxes is a “five pack” and each smaller box is a single laptop. I managed to get this shot before the feeding frenzy began.

  2. Aaron’s avatar

    Aaron on November 28, 2006 at 1:47 pm

    Are the laptops going to be sent to Thailand? I heard that Thailand is having second thoughts: http://bangkokpost.net/News/28Nov2006_news04.php

  3. blizzard’s avatar

    blizzard on November 28, 2006 at 1:53 pm

    We have a set of laptops for Thailand, yes. There are still folks inside of Thailand that are investigating and evaluating the laptop.

  4. Chris Preimesberger’s avatar

    Chris Preimesberger on November 28, 2006 at 6:55 pm

    Hey Chris. Congrats on this accomplishment. OK to use a copy of your photo for the story I’m writing for DL.com?

    Let ma know asasp!

    thanks,

    /cp

    DesktopLinux.com

  5. Chris Preimesberger’s avatar

    Chris Preimesberger on November 28, 2006 at 6:55 pm

    Also, let “ME” know, too! heheh

  6. Chris Preimesberger’s avatar

    Chris Preimesberger on November 28, 2006 at 6:57 pm

    I actually mean the photo of the single laptop from Nov. 15. I should have been clearer.

    ;-)

    /cp

  7. Tyler DeGiacomo’s avatar

    Tyler DeGiacomo on November 29, 2006 at 12:05 pm

    I’d love to see more photos.

    -T
    LinuxLookup.com

  10. Wayan’s avatar

    Wayan on November 29, 2006 at 3:05 pm

    Chris,

    I’ve struck out the quote mis-attributed to you. But if in fact there is a spare OLPC XO, the offer still stands.

    Not that Walter or Nicholas would ever allow it…

  11. José Alberto de lima e silva’s avatar

    José Alberto de lima e silva on November 29, 2006 at 10:19 pm

    acredito que só com a inclusão digital de todos é que poderemos
    diminuir as diferenças sociais no mundo.

  12. Josh Cogliati’s avatar

    Josh Cogliati on December 8, 2006 at 10:32 pm

    Can you give some more detail on this: “Although making the machines available to the developed world at low prices would help minimize the laptop’s resale value on the gray market, Blizzard says OLPC has opted not to at this time.” http://hardware.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/12/01/1546208

    Thanks.