Thinking of things to put on your wish list for this holiday season? Why not try something different and ask for a laptop? I know the people reading this blog are geeks at heart. You know the people that know you realize you’re geeks at heart and they want to give you something technology related. For the past few years I’ve had one simple thing on my wish list – a laptop. The only difference is I ask for the XO laptop from One Laptop Per Child and ask that you don’t send it to me but instead get OLPC to send it to places in the world that need it. It’s a relatively inexpensive technology gift at $199. For those that really want to go overboard you can spend an extra $100 and for $399 you can do Give One, Get One. If you ask OLPC they’ll actually send both to people in need of the technology since we all know that we sure as heck don’t need another laptop.
So this year try something different for your wish list and put One Laptop Per Child on the list. You’ll feel better. The world will get better. And all along you’ll increased the geek population.
NOTE: I don’t work for One Laptop Per Child. I know this post isn’t virtualization related but it sure doesn’t help to spread technology knowledge around the world.
November 29th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
And yet, it *is* virtualization-related, in that you can run Sugar, the Linux-based OS that powers the OLPC XO, in a VM on any VMware virtualization runtime, like VMware Fusion for Mac, to see what the apps and UI is like!
December 17th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
i hope some one will give me a laptop this year too.
i want to have my own too.