The Coolest Netbook You’ve Forgotten About: The OLPC XO-1 

same, tbh i wanted one but now i know the specs i wouldnt be able to run anything i was planning lol

i remember there was a whole thing around these.

wow i do too, i didn't know it was that long ago holy shit

My sister was a teacher at the time and she brought one home for me to borrow

I remember seeing ads for this on pbs kids and I was so jealous of the kids in the ads

@hyper Most of them are the exact same with and without sunlight. On some, the colors change because of two trips through for sun vs just one for the backlight.

There’s Smartwatches that include TransLCDs, for example the Xiaomi Amazfit Bip

Would there be any benefit to having TransLEDs in smartphones? Of course, being able to see the screen better under bright conditions is a given but what about battery life, enabling/disabling it, etc?

This is a Pixel Qi display, transflective indoors, reflective outdoors: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Qi

@@beatricemeyers4640

or serial experement lain

Walter Bender I wanna know how you even got Windows XP running on the X0-1 to begin with

wow creator himself, wish I I had gotten one as kid. Thanks for your contributions,

Do they still fix these old models? I have both the blue one and the green(1.75), but they doesnt work anymore. i was thinking that maybe they will fix them (even if that costs some money). (For some context, my gf is uruguayan, both OLPC's are from ceibal project and they arent blacklisted)

@@VouEuSou Vamo arriba uruguay nomas!!! En mi liceo los nenes todavia usan las verdes, nunca nos llegaron las azules, y me acuerdo que tipo habia rumores de que cuando llegabas a bachillerato te daban una que era re pro y era roja

as someone who literally had a xo-1 from school at 2009, it was one of my favorite computers when i was young and stupid. 10 years after it's blocked as shit and broke as shit but i love its form factor

@@AnonymousGentooman So, my gf came to Brazil with 2 brothers (so we have two XO 1.75 and one 1.5), they just brought them and it was working before they left them off for some years. She is planning a trip to Uruguay and she thought that maybe they will fix hers, even if its a paid service

@@lucamagnani5243 Tengo la XO azul (1.5) y el verde (1.75), ningúno de ellos esta funcionando, pero eso quería saber se ai en Uruguay irían arreglar mismo cobrando, sabes si ellos tienen algún projecto para arreglar la XO, mismo fuera de la escuela? Fotos de los modelos: imgur.com/a/4rZ329g

I REALLY hoped someone else picked up on that XD

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@@quinnhenry6719 As soon as I heard it. I rewound three times just to make sure that's what I heard LOL !

Quinn Henry I just heard it, had to rewind it to make sure I heard it right. 😂

back in 2008 Microsoft tried to make a Windows XP version that would install on it there were so much hate comments from the usual linux fanboys they couldn't imagine the idea of a 7 years old kid wanting to use Windows and office in 2008 I was 7. I spent my time playing with word and discovering tons of stuff just by playing around. WordArt was my favorite (of course). Fonts got me passionate about Writing systems and calligraphy. besides I was playing mahjong, solitaire and Purble place. Later I would discover Windows movie maker which would spark my love for video making. Those people who argue that kids will never need a full PC Don't know what they are talking about. Under sugar, the XO was pretty much useless (my sister had one in 5th grade)

I always wanted one of these as soon as I had seen the commercial on nick toons. I begged my parents but that said no.

@@manamaster_ i never asked because i already knew the answer lmao

Why do I see you everywhere

@@mi-nk Probably coincidence, I usually do not comment that much.

I want one to mod. Like, MOD. A lot . Such as the internals of like two Chromebooks and a touchscreen with a Windows 10 os, and more

hint: they were awesome

What do you use yourself nowadays?

@@Zulf85 well, I'm in 12th year now, in what we call "law high school" (roughly) so I don't use a computer in class. Also, since I studied 3 years of highschool in a private, Catholic school I didn't get the free upgrade XO, getting stucked with an old model from 2011

Aguante el juego de Vascolet papa.

@@thecountofmontezero sabeee

Instead of this, mobile device manufacturers try to make the screens as bright as they can so that they are readable outside. The advantage is that they can display colors in the sunlight unlike this one. The disadvantage would probably be battery life

In fairness Alabama is basically a developing nation.

Amythest We had these computers at my elementary school too for free back in 2008. (Alabama) I forgot about these but remembered it randomly. They were fun to use as kids.

Do you know if the display is switching modes with the greyscale thing? Very curious how the screen works

Have the laptops been upgraded over the years or have they stayed with the same exact hardware as initially? Eg bigger storage, Ram, a touchscreen, etc?

@@genericjosh96 I have a better resource for you to read up on this display: wiki.laptop.org/go/Display It serves a good intro to the OLPC display. (Thanks to Walter Bender for answering this question on mailing list and providing the link)

@@genericjosh96 Thanks for asking. I posted this on mailing list, and an expert who knew about the details got back with the answer. Thanks for your help, James Cameron! Here's what James from OLPC told me over the mailing list: A kernel configuration file is used to select colour or grayscale mode in the driver, and thus the display controller ASIC. This is in the kernel sources. The keyboard shim detects brightness control keys and manages the backlight power. When the backlight is turned off, the grayscale mode is enabled. When the backlight is turned on, the grayscale mode is disabled. This is in the keyboard shim sources. On the XO-1.75 and XO-4 models, a reverse biased red LED in the same SMT package as the green storage LED is used as an ambient light sensor. The power management daemon (powerd) detects high ambient light and turns off the backlight and turns on the grayscale mode. The backlight is turned off to save power, and increase running time on battery. This is in the powerd sources. However, without any change to backlight brightness or mode switching, full sunlight does appear as greyscale, because the human eye can't discern the small amount of colour emitted by the backlight compared to the large amount of white light reflected from the sun.

@@Alex-dn7jq The hardware has been regularly updated with release of newer models. For example, XO-4 (the latest one) has a touchscreen variant and improved hardware.

kitten!

That's probably the only thing that those two machines have in common.

And Fujitsu Lifebook T series

Thanks for pasta-ing that in the comments.

@@MorganHunter92 just say pasting you redditor

Steveg101 same

Guess what, there's exactly that! Check out Sugar on a Stick.

Plenty chinese tablets sell for extremly low price with better preformance for price than r-pie i got a 30$ Prestegio 7" tablet for my grandmother to read on

I bought one of those at a garage sale last year, it was my first laptop and it came with a cut down version of windows 7 and only had one gb of ram, but I quickly upgraded it to 2 gb of ram and lubuntu Edit: I still use it

I have a eeetab which asus later renamed to a transformer, it needs a new charger but Ive had it running anything it could like android, linux, and even a very old version of ubuntu touch

The first EeePC came with Xandros, a custom Debian-based distro - the only way to fit a whole software ecosystem on the puny 4GB SSD using a compressed bootable image. Later models came with either the resurrected for the occasion Windows XP (and a 8Gb SSD), then Windows 7 Starter Edition (on a 16Gb SSD). Several other manufacturers soon followed with other "netbooks", and Intel actually got the Atom series of chips out to power these little things with something a bit more responsive than a Celeron 900. I still have one of these early single core, dual threaded Atom 1600 netbooks as an emergency field computer (upgraded RAM to 2Gb). It's too slow for anything other than the simplest browsing and listening to music now, but 32-bit Ubuntu 18.04 with LXDE runs fine and it's more than enough to open a terminal window, download an ISO and create a boot disk, or type a quick note on the go. I'll retire it soon though, as there is no upgrade planned for 32-bit Ubuntu and I don't feel like formatting it anew.

Nuclear Hedgehog Get the Mountain Dew.

It kinda is, but most of the time it's not powerful enough to do anything with

@dood ayev better than yours

@dood ayev He's correct in stating that stars are not visible through a crescent Moon. ;)

Same in my Nokia E72

When I first saw the thumbnail, I was wondering if it was the laptop from those giveaways in the early 2000s. I remember really wanting to do that giveaway as a kid! Good thing I never did though, looks like shit for the dawn of the internet age.

Brenden Michelus yeah I remember really wanting one too. I agree with it was probably good thing that none of us ended up with one.

@@owowowdhxbxgakwlcybwxsimcwx Nice, did they ever update to the Puma architecture?

Yup, it's a case of a bad auto-focus implementation. I just got a new phone so I have been shooting 4K video with it. The built in camera is pretty good, however the auto-focus tends to change every couple seconds in some video environments.

@@AAComputersandTechnology Is there no way to use a manual focus? Seems like a pretty major oversight on part of the manufacturer if manual focus can't be used.

😭 right?!

It can't run desktop operating system, and it can't survive anything more than a basic fall. How about we don't do that?

@@quirble It doesn't need a desktop operating system. They can use it like a Chromebook with Office365 or Google Docs. And you can always pair a Bluetooth keyboard, which gives options for size, style, ergonomics/accessibility, etc. Just slap a rugged case on it to protect against falls.

@@PongoXBongo You have to think these computers go to poor people who might not be able to afford an internet connection or any hardware accesories.

Lol so accurate. It can even game some.

@@AnonymousGentooman I would say maybe ~80-100 since the hardware is dated but you tell me what you think it's worth?

This pc would probably do better with lubuntu, since it could access modern software

@@bandombeviews6035 maybe not, i've tried it with a dual core ddr3 amd processor at 1ghz, it could barelly open firefox

@@bandombeviews6035 maybe if you really optimize the os but still... it's 400mhz...

Must be a very old lubuntu version. Lubuntu uses 512MB idle.

@@silvy7394 actually no, i downloaded it this year and have in mind that it uses what you give it, i have 1gb of ram installed on this system, so lubuntu uses as little resources as it can (1gb is perfect for the games i will run on the bartop)