I mean that in a couple of ways, not only did I just take it out of the box yesterday, but also as in the use of this takes some "out of the box" thinking. Too many people want to compare this to a >$800 laptop running Windows/Mac/etc. in a usual world environment. Here's my thoughts (right or wrong) on that:
This is designed for kids to use in a less-than-ideal environment. Collaboration is what seems to be driving force for this computer. Most folks are seeing it in a standalone mode with no or very few other XOs to mesh with. Think about this in a room/school full of kids with a screen full of icons representing other kids.
They don't need high-end multimedia (it does have sound, graphics and video now) to learn on. Nor do they need Word/Excel/Photoshop. They can write, draw, compose and send text, images and videos back forth to each other with nothing else added. They're not going to use this to make a motion picture.
I doubt the XO will be tossed into a room full of kids who are told to have at it. There's going to be some direction from others. They don't have to, but probably will, learn what Turtle is about. It's a first step into programming, it's not a be-all, end-all application.
Given that, there's going to be some kids who within a week or so, will end up teaching the other kids, having learned more about the XO than the adults in the room will have ever imagined.
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Personally, I think it's a great little computer. I took it to Barnes and Noble today to try out the wireless and it worked just fine. I keep discovering little features on it that are "ooh, that's cool" kind of things that I wish my $1200 Macbook had. Sure it has limitations, it's only $188 for crying out loud. It's also a tiny, surprisingly solid feeling, real, honest computer with a video camera, music capabilities, word processing, calculator, collaboration capabilities, games and more already installed.