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Somehow, a twelve-year-old child has been given the opportunity to take the OLPC XO for a test drive, and we’ve got the blow-by-blow for you. The critic, named “SG,” has spent a lifetime using computers, and claims that he / she had low expectations, but the XO took him / her “by surprise,” calling the child-centric green laptop “cleverly designed, imaginative, [and] straightforward.” The reviewer says that Negroponte‘s pet-project is “great for first time users,” and lauds the PCs games and camera, as well as the “application that allows you to type things.” Unfortunately, it’s not all cheers for the humanitarian computer, as the critic discovered that applications were slow to open, the system was prone to crashes, and the OS delivers no message before the battery loses charge. “I had to wait two minutes to get onto one application,” he / she says, and “it got slower… the longer I went without rebooting it.” In the end, however, SG gives the laptop high marks, concluding that the value, build quality, and bundled software outweigh the minor annoyances he / she had with the system, closing the review by simply stating, “This program is truly amazing.”

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