Grr... It's only available to governments.

Is the laptop good or bad?

pretty limited, I red an news article its more for writing down your notes. I mean what would you expect for $100?

It has more than that, but the software is being worked on. For now, it's running Fedora Linux, so it has at least a web browser, a word processor, an image viewer, possibly an audio-video player, and programming tools.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_laptop

does it have like 15 gigs of hard drive space?

It has flash memory, not a hard drive. It does have USB, though, so you can add more space to it.

I guess I would take it for fun, and I would probably add stuff to the laptop to make it better and stuff.

yeah, I wonder how tricked out this 100 dollar laptop can get, it'll be nice to see

I'm used to old technology, so the current specs would be plenty for me, as long as they are not stupid enough to load OpenOffice.org on it. What I would want, though, is to paint it black and white. I wouldn't be caught dead with an orange laptop.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/OLPC1.jpg
Not a big fan of Fedora Core, though. Since the OLPC project wants everything to be open-source, for MP3 support you will need to get it from Fedora's software repositories.

That laptop doesn't seem to suit my taste. I mean it doesn't even look like a normal laptop, it looks like one of those toy laptops you get from Toys R Us.

how big is that screen anyways, it must be pretty damn small for it being 100 bucks

That laptop doesn't seem to suit my taste. I mean it doesn't even look like a normal laptop, it looks like one of those toy laptops you get from Toys R Us.
Yeah, like those ones which aren't really laptops but things for little kids to learn from.

this is another case of a solution looking for a problem
that's the problem with technology today .... what's the solution for THAT?

An electronic textbook, and a way for children to program. The screen has a higher-resolution, monochrome mode for use as an ebook. I heard it might go retail for $200, and if so people will probably add modifications for it, like different colors. I think the screen's about 7-9 inches.

id love to see the case redesigns ie a battop anyone?

An electronic textbook, and a way for children to program. The screen has a higher-resolution, monochrome mode for use as an ebook. I heard it might go retail for $200, and if so people will probably add modifications for it, like different colors. I think the screen's about 7-9 inches.
We're already moving towards a future where education does not need books or textbooks. It just seems so unfair for us today, we have to lug around a ton of textbooks to get our education.

just scan the textbooks digitally, import them onto your computer, and read them there or make it into an audo file and listen to it

The teachers will assume you are listening to music and/or say it is unfair that most students have to lug textbooks and you don't.

Yeah, they want us to get scholiosis, or however you spell it.