Now I really do want a One Laptop Per Child laptop. From a product design point of view, this is exactly what I need. What a pity that it will probably be running Windows.

I have some issues with the first version of the OLPC operating system that I saw demonstrated at the Adaptive Path UX Week seminars in Washington DC last summer. My concerns are educational rather than practical, and I wish that the development team presenting there had been able to allay those concerns. Migrating the OS to Windows (or anything mainstream) is probably a safer bet for the long-term economic success of the kids using them.