BBC Coverage of the XO Laptop

The BBC website has some interesting coverage on the emergence of the XO laptop. The site contains a lot of articles looking at different aspects of how the introduction of the XO in developing nations is going. It also includes a lot of interesting media including short video clips.

One of the articles is a review of the XO by a nine year old from England. He uses his laptop to "his laptop to write, paint, make music, explore the internet, and talk to children from other countries".

Another part of the site I liked was the Factfile which shows the technical features of the XO.

In the article Glimpsing Nigeria's Digital Lifeline, the authors talked about some of the challenges such as broken machines, unreliable Internet access and the need for funding for filtering.

I liked the coverage on this site because it showed some of the positive aspects of the $100 laptop as well as some of the challenges as well as some of the political forces surrounding this machine.