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I’m from Uruguay and I got one of these in middle school. I learned to code on it and some years later I started contributing to the sugar platform myself. I won a Google coding award and now I lead a team of developers in NYC. I owe everything to the “Shrekbook Pro” :)
Que historia tan inspiradora! Felicitaciones, yo soy Colombiano y tuve educación secundaria técnica enfocada en electricidad y electrónica. Desafortunadamente el desarrollo de hardware en Latinoamérica es muy poco y eso me desanima un poco.
When I was in 5th grade (about 7 years ago) I really wanted one of these. Especially when you could buy one for around $200 and they would donate one. Unfortunately my mom didn't get me one and I ended up getting a standard laptop a year later. I thought this was a cool concept and seeing it run Android was cool as well.
I had one of those when I was in first grade in Uruguay back in 2008 Edit: it was an earlier model, didn’t had android and I had 1gb of rom memory. The XO had a few models, the first one I got looked just like the one you had there but without android, then I got one with a touchscreen in 3rd grade (plan ceiba made us chance them), then in 5th grade they made us change it again to a blue model with Ubunt OS
@ddk I'm also from Uruguay. If you went to a state school, you'd just be given one, in my case that was after I got to second grade (I think), I imagine it was taxed and included within the state's education budget. If you went to a private school, if the school wanted them they'd have to pay for the computers themselves (which might or might not mean that your parents would have to pay extra fees that month). It was fun for us to be able to play Doom and Facebook games (this began in 2007) but I don't think the teachers made great use of it, especially back in the day, where many hadn't ever even touched a laptop in their lives; the situation is very different now because of smartphones. I feel like it was successful nonetheless in educating young children on how to use computers in a time where it wasn't as widespread as it is today. Plan Ceibal has now moved on to distributing tablets; and it still plays an important role now with the coronavirus spreading For *Master of the dark:* It was original Ubuntu, I don't think ubuntu mobile was a thing in 2007. In the tablets now they use Android I think.
@@jjtt it's not in the taxes, I worked on Plan Ceibal teaching robotics, programming and how to use the PC to teachers, Ceibal it's a Private company and the owner it's the son of Tabaré Vázquez ex president (accommodation?)
Im from Uruguay and i was so happy with this little computer, i remember that i get one when i was 8 years old hahaha. I was the happiest boy in the world, thanks OLPC project ♡
I have an XO-1, much older than the model you have. These smartphones were made for kids in developing countries, it was meant to be cheap from the get go with low end specs and no moving parts at all. Everything was made for it to resist dust, sand, drops, maybe even water. it's quite a marvel of engineering. The Original models had 1Gb of storage and 256mb of RAM, and used an x86 compatible cpu. These are really interesting machines for sure. Interestingly your model has a "normal" keyboard, while the early units (like mine) have a membrane keyboard that's really really crappy
It really is a very interesting computer! Especially for its time, for sure. In fact, I would argue that this thing was around five years ahead of its time - if not more. At least the one in the video with the touchscreen, which is obviously not the first model... Dahhh I just realized that while typing, but I'm too lazy to reword this comment lol. My point still might somewhat stand about the first model: even that one was a little ahead of its time. Too bad they didn't work out, though. But at least smartphones picked up the slack hehe.
I actually have like 12 of these things and they are just ridiculously strange devices. The batteries are made using a different kind of chemical makeup which gives them a very long life. Most of my batteries still work and they last 3 to 4 hours with the grayscale mode enabled. Be aware when buying them used. In the first version of these laptops they have a clock battery that is usually dead by now. When these clock batteries die, there's a bug in the firmware which makes the laptop not boot again until you dissect the laptop and connect to a small serial port and load the latest firmware through SSH or something. The serial port inside uses a hard to find connector that you usually have to build herself. Its a huge PITA. If you do manage to get one that's still boots, you must download a firmware update onto a USB stick from the olpc website. After this firmware update is applied, the laptop will be fine if the battery dies. If you come across one of these for sale that only shows a green light when powered up and no home screen, it probably has a dead clock battery with the original firmware. Unless you know what you are doing I suggest to just stay away from the comatose ones.
Fun fact, these are used in some Australian primary schools to this day. They are slowly been phased out but there was one for every student at the school back in the day. Of course when they switched to Android I accidentally soft-locked my sisters by installing 2048 but they were still prominent. Was not a good idea though as in the years prior when I was attending primary we just used Windows laptops. So yeah, maybe fact check a bit more
Would love to see them remake/re-release this laptop again with the current-gen ARM chips & USB-C power options, definitely along with hand-cranked batteries. Love the design of XO-4, definitely prefer this than their newer Infinity laptop.
I did a project on these laptops in college (~2013) and did some fundraising for some to be shipped to Uganda I believe. Crazy seeing one after all these years!
You've helped me unlock a forgotten memory! I got to goof around with one of these at work when someone let me borrow one with a busted screen. I can't remember how or why that happened. I liked the little thing.
This brings back so many memories. Our school received them as a trial but the trial failed because kids kept destroying them but was glad to be the only in the country to use them
This machine was my dream computer ever (because of how cute and durable it is) In my childhood, I only have a PC, and I have to share with my family. This is a computer I always wanted, then I got a tablet PC and completely forgot about it.
It was/is such a cool project, well designed, and really well intentioned. Hopefully they end up making a new model. Also, Homestar Runner had one of these.
This type of laptop was very common here in Uruguay for a long time, until a new model with an Intel Atom replaced it recently. Never used one cuz it was exclusive to public education centers.
@@archetype6351 It's called Sugar OS, and you can actually run it on a modern web browser such as chrome, Firefox, or Opera try.sugarizer.org/ You can also get Sugar DE on Fedora, Debian(one I would recommend for most for stability), and Ubuntu for X86 builds. sugarlabs.org/
Honestly I think this was a great idea, wish more companies would do a similar idea to this where they donate a laptop for every one of a certain model sold
I bought one of these X1 model, when they first came out in 2007. It was a program called "Give One Get One" It cost $400. for the two laptops, and you could designate which country you wanted your GIVE to go to. It wasn't quite as sophisticated as your X4 version and was just a fun thing mainly to help out the program of OLPC. Just a couple of comments. The handcrank was never released with the laptop in any version, reason being in the presentation to World Leaders before launch, the crank broke in the hands of some Ambassador or some other official, and it just was 'tanked' at that point. You could buy an add on as you stated, but it never came with the initial release. The first screens were not touch control but nevertheless the thing did work on the WWW and was surprisingly useful to a child to play with. I still have mine and it still works. I tried it a couple of weeks ago when I came across it in a box in my garage. I plugged it in and boom...just like day one! I am keeping it just because it is part of the first 700 released, and while it has no antique value, it has a sentimental connection. Of course, if anyone is silly enough to want to pay $200. CDN for it, I just might consider letting it go. ;-)
As you can tell from the comments they gave one of these to most elementary kids in Uruguay. One of the few games this computer could run which I remember very vividly was Doom (Freedoom running in an early version of the prboom source port, no music just sound effects). I also remember teachers would say it was a virus that bricked your laptop to prevent kids from playing it. I remember the games being labeled "Doom 1-6" despite them being all different versions of the open-source Freedoom although the most common to find was Phase 2 of Freedoom 0.6.4.
I used to have a olpc xo-3 when I was little. I remember spending a lot of time playing with the text to speach program and making it say stuff like poop and penis. Ah good times.
The father of my pastors wife gave the nursery one of these after he bought one as a donation, and it got me thinking about computers and the ways that they could be used, leading me to become an IT major down the road in college.
I honestly kinda like the look of this labtop and that hand crank charger or whatever seems like it'd be rather useful . So I wonder why it either stopped being made or not having links for them anymore
OMG my primary school had these craptops and they were running android 4.0 Im pretty sure they were made for rural people in 3rd world countries Why did my Australian primary school have these laptops Yeah they are called XOs they were so slow
Seeing the XO running Android is like looking under the hood of an iconic vw beetle from the 70s, and seeing a smoke-belching ford engine inside. That is just so unholy. Those little boxes came with an amazing custom Linux distro for kids. Whoever defiled that device by installing a garbage, locked-down media consumption OS on it should be ashamed of themselves. 6:00 Good on ya for restoring it to its Linuxy glory. 8:00 This is the laptop that launched the entire netbook category 9:00 Yeah, Linux speech synthesis has a long way to go.
@Dawson Pate It compares very favorably to iOS, but not so favorably when compared to an actual computer. I'm not hating on Android, it has it's place. But just look like things like phones that can't be rooted, or vendor/carrier-installed crapware, and all of the spying that goes on. It might be one of the best touch interfaces, but my personal preference would be to not ever, ever install it on a laptop.
In my country they gave out these for free on public schools, i was lucky to go to a private school so i never got these, we call them the xo's. Btw do you know what country these came from?
I got an OLPC 1 from a yard sale a few years ago. It is a cool thing to hack with. The hardware and software are both open source, except the WiFi stuff.
When I was younger I wanted one of these so badly, I saw them on an ad for like fruit by the foot or something and I was like I’m the one buying the food why are they getting the computers :/
When I was in primary school in Brisbane, from grade 1-5 all had there’s xo’s as computers, when I got to year 6 I became a xo mechanic which I found lots of fun, every Thursday at lunch we would have a pile of ox’s that have all sorts of problems and we had to fix them, we replaced screens keyboards batteries and a lot of software stuff too
what an amazing nonprofit and interesting device. you never see laptops with that type of thick plastic casing meant to be used for young kids. not to mention all the cool and unique hardware features it has. wouldve loved this as a kid and im so glad kids in developing countries got to experience computers bc of this charity. i have a lot of great computer related memories from my childhood and im glad kids who might not have otherwise, got to make memories on the computer.
I'm planning to get an XO-1 myself actually. It's the one tiny laptop I want besides the Acer Aspire One since the whole line has crazy battery life and good visibility in the brightness as you mentioned.
I can't believe that thing was shipped with a single piece of bubble wrap inside a mailer. If I shipped that with USPS like that it would be totally obliterated.
here in argentina they were free for every child in school but only the old ones, sugar os was very weird but fun at the same time, tbh i never used it like a college thing, it was just for fun and i even installed something like a windows emulator called " wine" and i used that for playing old games in snes emulators and that. I also used to play games like doom, quake, and games that were specifically made for the OLPC XO-1, like Vascolet (the third one was mi favorite, it was a racing game), XA (a run and gun game), and Garra Futbol (a football game)
I remember when these were a thing. They were meant for Third World Countries, and they either ran a custom Distribution of Linux, or Windows XP. They were originally never shipped with Android...at least to my knowledge! This was around the time Netbooks were taking off! IIRC, They only had like
I have an OLPC 1.5 i got for 6$ at goodwill, and yeah it has very bad driver support in lts linux kernel, no usb mouse/keyboard support, which given the devices very bad rubber keyboard (the older model didnt have a chicklet keyboard but the rubber like one that you would see in a rollup keyboard) you are able to install your own linux distro but its not very easy and it would be best to compile the entire kernel yourself at least mine didnt have soldered internal storage but a micro-sd card instead.
well gonna have to say it least has USB keyboard support (took it out last night and re-installed the Stock OS) stilll couldnt get external mouse although DMESG does show it being detected. Hardest part is switching distro's as almost all instructions have you replace the distro's kernel with the stock fedora one for the XO
It had (has?) some pretty neat features, it automatically networks if similar machines are within range. As a toy it's not up to much but it has found use as a tool for farmers and the like. There is also a back-pack with a solar panel on it that could charge the thing. All in all a damned good idea, better in many ways that the latest smart phones (keyboard, decent size screen albeit with the currently fashionable if rather cramped reduced height layout, optimised for viewing cats).
8:34 here in Australia, we actually have the Infinity Laptop and the Infinity:One that also has a green colour (it is more expensive the the OLPC XO-4). Some schools use it and nowadays it uses Windows 10 (very slow on its hardware).
They made those for youngsters overseas. I think mainly Africa. The mayor of Birmingham Alabama arranged to buy a lot of these and hand out to low income households. That mayor went to jail (unrelated afaik) and the few teachers I know haven’t seen one of these to date.
It's funny I'm old enough to remember all the crazy hype around these. They were going to change and educate the world! Now they're "Shrek" laptops to TH-camrs to refurbish.
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Psivewri lol funny
Fun Fact, I work for the company that makes these laptops Nathan
HAITCH PEA
“It’s one of those HAITCH PEA pods”
It’s beautiful...
I’m from Uruguay and I got one of these in middle school. I learned to code on it and some years later I started contributing to the sugar platform myself. I won a Google coding award and now I lead a team of developers in NYC. I owe everything to the “Shrekbook Pro” :)
Que historia tan inspiradora! Felicitaciones, yo soy Colombiano y tuve educación secundaria técnica enfocada en electricidad y electrónica. Desafortunadamente el desarrollo de hardware en Latinoamérica es muy poco y eso me desanima un poco.
Are you working at Google in NYC?
k a No, I work at a startup nowadays
@ en donde estudiaste man?
This is such a great story! Thanks for sharing.
This guys not only a technician, he is a pro pianist
How flattering ahaha, I wish I was good
Psivewri your better than me thats for sure! (BTW I’m a big fan and i love tech keep doing what your doing my guy)
Psivewri me too
woah nice piano skills and taste of music!
You are good!
dankpods would be proud...
Yay someone said it
@@thegamingconnoisseur4151 damn right I did
The ShrekTop pro! Goes well with the ShrekPods Pro, and the 1tb ShrekPod
r/beatmetoit
Geir geir geir
Serious question: But does it play Shrek???
That's a DankPods reference, soo..
Ukasa i know
The Shrekpod pro (;
Ukasa lol
It does, but you need to pay for it
When I was in 5th grade (about 7 years ago) I really wanted one of these. Especially when you could buy one for around $200 and they would donate one. Unfortunately my mom didn't get me one and I ended up getting a standard laptop a year later. I thought this was a cool concept and seeing it run Android was cool as well.
Aguante el vascole, juegazo
I had one of those when I was in first grade in Uruguay back in 2008
Edit: it was an earlier model, didn’t had android and I had 1gb of rom memory.
The XO had a few models, the first one I got looked just like the one you had there but without android, then I got one with a touchscreen in 3rd grade (plan ceiba made us chance them), then in 5th grade they made us change it again to a blue model with Ubunt OS
I have the same question as ddk
Plus was it ubuntu Mobile or originial ubuntu
@ddk I'm also from Uruguay. If you went to a state school, you'd just be given one, in my case that was after I got to second grade (I think), I imagine it was taxed and included within the state's education budget. If you went to a private school, if the school wanted them they'd have to pay for the computers themselves (which might or might not mean that your parents would have to pay extra fees that month).
It was fun for us to be able to play Doom and Facebook games (this began in 2007) but I don't think the teachers made great use of it, especially back in the day, where many hadn't ever even touched a laptop in their lives; the situation is very different now because of smartphones. I feel like it was successful nonetheless in educating young children on how to use computers in a time where it wasn't as widespread as it is today. Plan Ceibal has now moved on to distributing tablets; and it still plays an important role now with the coronavirus spreading
For *Master of the dark:* It was original Ubuntu, I don't think ubuntu mobile was a thing in 2007. In the tablets now they use Android I think.
@@sillyaioli it was Sugar on 1.0 and GNOME on 1.5
This would be something Fruit Roll-Ups would offer as promotional material.
@@jjtt it's not in the taxes, I worked on Plan Ceibal teaching robotics, programming and how to use the PC to teachers, Ceibal it's a Private company and the owner it's the son of Tabaré Vázquez ex president (accommodation?)
Im from Uruguay and i was so happy with this little computer, i remember that i get one when i was 8 years old hahaha. I was the happiest boy in the world, thanks OLPC project ♡
@ch282 we trade it for a new model at the high school
que recuerdos xd
El garrafutbol era clave
What are you using now after 12 months?
Psiweri: Shrek PC
Me: hmmm i wonder where are dank pods
DankPods needs to get one of these
You stole my words, mate.
@@robertpucovsky i completely agree
Fr I was thinking of him about this
Robert Pucovsky yea
I have an XO-1, much older than the model you have. These smartphones were made for kids in developing countries, it was meant to be cheap from the get go with low end specs and no moving parts at all. Everything was made for it to resist dust, sand, drops, maybe even water. it's quite a marvel of engineering.
The Original models had 1Gb of storage and 256mb of RAM, and used an x86 compatible cpu.
These are really interesting machines for sure.
Interestingly your model has a "normal" keyboard, while the early units (like mine) have a membrane keyboard that's really really crappy
Le Docteur yes they are
It really is a very interesting computer! Especially for its time, for sure. In fact, I would argue that this thing was around five years ahead of its time - if not more. At least the one in the video with the touchscreen, which is obviously not the first model... Dahhh I just realized that while typing, but I'm too lazy to reword this comment lol.
My point still might somewhat stand about the first model: even that one was a little ahead of its time. Too bad they didn't work out, though.
But at least smartphones picked up the slack hehe.
I actually have like 12 of these things and they are just ridiculously strange devices. The batteries are made using a different kind of chemical makeup which gives them a very long life. Most of my batteries still work and they last 3 to 4 hours with the grayscale mode enabled. Be aware when buying them used. In the first version of these laptops they have a clock battery that is usually dead by now. When these clock batteries die, there's a bug in the firmware which makes the laptop not boot again until you dissect the laptop and connect to a small serial port and load the latest firmware through SSH or something. The serial port inside uses a hard to find connector that you usually have to build herself. Its a huge PITA. If you do manage to get one that's still boots, you must download a firmware update onto a USB stick from the olpc website. After this firmware update is applied, the laptop will be fine if the battery dies. If you come across one of these for sale that only shows a green light when powered up and no home screen, it probably has a dead clock battery with the original firmware. Unless you know what you are doing I suggest to just stay away from the comatose ones.
Fun fact, these are used in some Australian primary schools to this day. They are slowly been phased out but there was one for every student at the school back in the day. Of course when they switched to Android I accidentally soft-locked my sisters by installing 2048 but they were still prominent. Was not a good idea though as in the years prior when I was attending primary we just used Windows laptops. So yeah, maybe fact check a bit more
*i love how he says that he found the strangest laptop so calmly*
Zero personality
So chill
Why do aussies seem obsessed with shrek?
dankpods
It’s because Shrek is our lord and saviour
Look at him, and you'll understand instantly. *Not just aussies!
Aussies have layers…
@@G200Sleepr
...like an Onion
Would love to see them remake/re-release this laptop again with the current-gen ARM chips & USB-C power options, definitely along with hand-cranked batteries. Love the design of XO-4, definitely prefer this than their newer Infinity laptop.
I did a project on these laptops in college (~2013) and did some fundraising for some to be shipped to Uganda I believe. Crazy seeing one after all these years!
I remember seeing these laptops on tv when I was little asking for donations. You brought back a memory I didn't know I had.
the 'Metallica' sounded more like doom-guy music to me...
Same. Here
I mean, that was directly inspired by Master of Puppets.
@@JackOfHarts96 hmmm...interesting.
@@JackOfHarts96 just listened to master of puppets and wow you were right...great song!
@@irukhan07 You never heard Master of Puppets before?
That hybrid screen is bloody brilliant and I can’t believe I don’t see it used anywhere else
You've helped me unlock a forgotten memory! I got to goof around with one of these at work when someone let me borrow one with a busted screen. I can't remember how or why that happened. I liked the little thing.
It's ironic that this laptop was listed in a book called "Cool Stuff", printed in the mid 2000s.
This brings back so many memories. Our school received them as a trial but the trial failed because kids kept destroying them but was glad to be the only in the country to use them
7:28 Ohhhhhhhh, so that's how you say it...
I never knew either! Always loved the channel but I never knew.
This machine was my dream computer ever (because of how cute and durable it is) In my childhood, I only have a PC, and I have to share with my family. This is a computer I always wanted, then I got a tablet PC and completely forgot about it.
Someone really needs to deck this thing out with modern equipment because the dsign of the device is absolutely astounding
I'm using a Lenovo tablet with Android 4.4 and I can watch TH-cam, chrome works perfectly, Netflix. Probably a lot faster then that tho.
cool
Same but Iam using a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition android 4.4.2
yeah 13 years later, you're so cool!!
When I was younger I remember reading about this in a magazine when it was still brand new lol
Somebody once told me the “Shrek-book” existed, I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed.
It was/is such a cool project, well designed, and really well intentioned. Hopefully they end up making a new model. Also, Homestar Runner had one of these.
Finally! someone that mentions Homestar used this
The XO was very interessting for me in 2007. Something from this project, what I find beatiful was clamp charger, for human power.
the dank in this video is powerful
For me, it's interesting seeing this laptop pop up on your channel, being the only charity I've donated to so far.
This type of laptop was very common here in Uruguay for a long time, until a new model with an Intel Atom replaced it recently. Never used one cuz it was exclusive to public education centers.
I actually have one of those their are called "Clamshell"
@@frangamer1892 JAJAJAAJ bien ahi bro
now THAT is a sexy machine
i remeber that this pc was intended to be distributed in developing countries for poor people
Also were giving to children in school, I got one of those (without android tho) in first grade back in 2008
@John Alejandro Why is it gross?
@@nicoroccofernandez8324 you get it with linux ?
@@Davidesantiano Yeah, it came with what seemed to be a fork of Fedora with the Sugar DE.
@@archetype6351 It's called Sugar OS, and you can actually run it on a modern web browser such as chrome, Firefox, or Opera
try.sugarizer.org/
You can also get Sugar DE on Fedora, Debian(one I would recommend for most for stability), and Ubuntu for X86 builds.
sugarlabs.org/
Honestly I think this was a great idea, wish more companies would do a similar idea to this where they donate a laptop for every one of a certain model sold
I think i know an Australian that would like one of these.
HAITCH PEA
I bought one of these X1 model, when they first came out in 2007. It was a program called "Give One Get One" It cost $400. for the two laptops, and you could designate which country you wanted your GIVE to go to. It wasn't quite as sophisticated as your X4 version and was just a fun thing mainly to help out the program of OLPC. Just a couple of comments. The handcrank was never released with the laptop in any version, reason being in the presentation to World Leaders before launch, the crank broke in the hands of some Ambassador or some other official, and it just was 'tanked' at that point. You could buy an add on as you stated, but it never came with the initial release. The first screens were not touch control but nevertheless the thing did work on the WWW and was surprisingly useful to a child to play with. I still have mine and it still works. I tried it a couple of weeks ago when I came across it in a box in my garage. I plugged it in and boom...just like day one! I am keeping it just because it is part of the first 700 released, and while it has no antique value, it has a sentimental connection. Of course, if anyone is silly enough to want to pay $200. CDN for it, I just might consider letting it go. ;-)
6:30 that’s music to my ears
In my final exam, in french we had to do a reading of a reveiw of this laptop
I faintly remember the commercials for these on the TV back in the day. BUT can it run Doom?
Yes
As you can tell from the comments they gave one of these to most elementary kids in Uruguay. One of the few games this computer could run which I remember very vividly was Doom (Freedoom running in an early version of the prboom source port, no music just sound effects). I also remember teachers would say it was a virus that bricked your laptop to prevent kids from playing it. I remember the games being labeled "Doom 1-6" despite them being all different versions of the open-source Freedoom although the most common to find was Phase 2 of Freedoom 0.6.4.
yes it can, sunk hours on it, still couldn't pass level 3 lmao
@@kannitaofficial so that's why it was so eerie to my!! because it lacked the bgm
Best budget laptop I have seen
''Psivewri's tasty mac's''
may be an apple, but i don't think i could eat it, would probably break my teeth.
Or maybe a Mcflurry from McDonald's
Anyone know what this website this is?
Hustin D. Hemphill what website?
@@funnystoriesshorts481 the website for Psivewri's Tasty Macs
Hustin D. Hemphill idk
“I just bought the strangest laptop I have ever seen” with no expression on his face 🤣🤣I just bursted out laughing......
I used to have a olpc xo-3 when I was little. I remember spending a lot of time playing with the text to speach program and making it say stuff like poop and penis. Ah good times.
Yeah😭😢good times
Same. I had way too much fun with that feature
Shrek: Hey Donkey you like my new laptop?
Hah i thought that i was the only one who watches dankpods
Dang right to the point, not even 2 minutes in and you’re ripping the thing apart 😅
A perfect companion for your Shrekpod Pro
Ardimo Harsa Wrong aus youtuber mate
The father of my pastors wife gave the nursery one of these after he bought one as a donation, and it got me thinking about computers and the ways that they could be used, leading me to become an IT major down the road in college.
6:30 you're good!
This is the weirdest laptop I have ever seen.
Judging by the post in the community tab, I’m assuming this was sponsored by squarespace.
Edit - I guessed correctly! :D
These are funky looking laptops
Dank pods gang
damn straight
Dingus
@Henry McElwain hahaha aw man look guys it's someone who's not subscribed to dankpods
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I honestly kinda like the look of this labtop and that hand crank charger or whatever seems like it'd be rather useful . So I wonder why it either stopped being made or not having links for them anymore
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I really like the concept back then. Hopefully there are similiar project like these in the future
OMG my primary school had these craptops and they were running android 4.0
Im pretty sure they were made for rural people in 3rd world countries
Why did my Australian primary school have these laptops
Yeah they are called XOs
they were so slow
Seeing the XO running Android is like looking under the hood of an iconic vw beetle from the 70s, and seeing a smoke-belching ford engine inside.
That is just so unholy.
Those little boxes came with an amazing custom Linux distro for kids. Whoever defiled that device by installing a garbage, locked-down media consumption OS on it should be ashamed of themselves.
6:00 Good on ya for restoring it to its Linuxy glory.
8:00 This is the laptop that launched the entire netbook category
9:00 Yeah, Linux speech synthesis has a long way to go.
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It compares very favorably to iOS, but not so favorably when compared to an actual computer. I'm not hating on Android, it has it's place. But just look like things like phones that can't be rooted, or vendor/carrier-installed crapware, and all of the spying that goes on.
It might be one of the best touch interfaces, but my personal preference would be to not ever, ever install it on a laptop.
In my country they gave out these for free on public schools, i was lucky to go to a private school so i never got these, we call them the xo's.
Btw do you know what country these came from?
Oh and everyone fucking hated them
@@SpeedWeed97 i agree
And in what country they gave those PCs?
@@oblivion2755 Uruguay
@ch282 they are so painfully laggy and it only works for education
I got an OLPC 1 from a yard sale a few years ago. It is a cool thing to hack with. The hardware and software are both open source, except the WiFi stuff.
When I was younger I wanted one of these so badly, I saw them on an ad for like fruit by the foot or something and I was like I’m the one buying the food why are they getting the computers :/
When I was in primary school in Brisbane, from grade 1-5 all had there’s xo’s as computers, when I got to year 6 I became a xo mechanic which I found lots of fun, every Thursday at lunch we would have a pile of ox’s that have all sorts of problems and we had to fix them, we replaced screens keyboards batteries and a lot of software stuff too
I’ve seen ads for those on Nickelodeon in like 2010
The irony 😯
seeing you play piano on a shrekbook has to be the best content I've seen on your channel tbh
DankPod would like to buy this item.
I wanted this so much back in the day the idea of a 100 dollar pc was so alluring... Especially one with a built in hand crank...
I work for the company that makes these!
Thanks for my first laptop lol
@@lefranor5773 of course!
Are they gonna make a new version? Or is good where it is now?
Temporary Account We only makes the Olpc XO-4 as of rn
Woah Nathan! I didn't know you could play the piano
*BUT CAN IT RUN CRYSIS?*
Ok, but we seriously need a Shrek themed computer. We got a Club Penguin computer, so why not Shrek?
(1:00) and It looks like the android bot
what an amazing nonprofit and interesting device. you never see laptops with that type of thick plastic casing meant to be used for young kids. not to mention all the cool and unique hardware features it has. wouldve loved this as a kid and im so glad kids in developing countries got to experience computers bc of this charity. i have a lot of great computer related memories from my childhood and im glad kids who might not have otherwise, got to make memories on the computer.
Show Some love for the first comment folks
I'm planning to get an XO-1 myself actually. It's the one tiny laptop I want besides the Acer Aspire One since the whole line has crazy battery life and good visibility in the brightness as you mentioned.
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I have to say that this is one of the most creative laptop reviews I've ever seen, gj mate!
Shrek is Love. Shrek is Life.
how I wish they still make such laptops with better specs very iconic.
I can't believe that thing was shipped with a single piece of bubble wrap inside a mailer. If I shipped that with USPS like that it would be totally obliterated.
here in argentina they were free for every child in school but only the old ones, sugar os was very weird but fun at the same time, tbh i never used it like a college thing, it was just for fun and i even installed something like a windows emulator called " wine" and i used that for playing old games in snes emulators and that. I also used to play games like doom, quake, and games that were specifically made for the OLPC XO-1, like Vascolet (the third one was mi favorite, it was a racing game), XA (a run and gun game), and Garra Futbol (a football game)
Where is the "Hello guys and welcome back to yet another video" 😂
I remember when these were a thing. They were meant for Third World Countries, and they either ran a custom Distribution of Linux, or Windows XP. They were originally never shipped with Android...at least to my knowledge! This was around the time Netbooks were taking off! IIRC, They only had like
These laptops were always used at school,I had one in year 4 and 5 and I loved it 🤪
Ur channle is awesome bro. U made me open up my old laptops and fix them! Its ultra fun and i enjoy it! Love the content continue like that!!
That would drive me nuts with how laggy it is but if that’s all I had then I’d be thankful
6:41 that sounds like Shrek on the piano trying to play master of puppets while trying to ignore every staring at him.
Shrek but is in doomguy mode
6:30 rare clip of psivewri playing take on me on a piano
I have an OLPC 1.5 i got for 6$ at goodwill, and yeah it has very bad driver support in lts linux kernel, no usb mouse/keyboard support, which given the devices very bad rubber keyboard (the older model didnt have a chicklet keyboard but the rubber like one that you would see in a rollup keyboard)
you are able to install your own linux distro but its not very easy and it would be best to compile the entire kernel yourself
at least mine didnt have soldered internal storage but a micro-sd card instead.
well gonna have to say it least has USB keyboard support (took it out last night and re-installed the Stock OS) stilll couldnt get external mouse although DMESG does show it being detected.
Hardest part is switching distro's as almost all instructions have you replace the distro's kernel with the stock fedora one for the XO
I remember in Costa Rican all over the news, kids getting those computers for schools as a donation from china if I recall correctly
6:40 nicee one of the very few tech youtubers that like metal
It had (has?) some pretty neat features, it automatically networks if similar machines are within range. As a toy it's not up to much but it has found use as a tool for farmers and the like. There is also a back-pack with a solar panel on it that could charge the thing. All in all a damned good idea, better in many ways that the latest smart phones (keyboard, decent size screen albeit with the currently fashionable if rather cramped reduced height layout, optimised for viewing cats).
This computers helped a lot of people and also made a path for getting computer to lower costs.
I heard about this computer here in Brazil, but I had never seen one in front of me in my school days
8:34 here in Australia, we actually have the Infinity Laptop and the Infinity:One that also has a green colour (it is more expensive the the OLPC XO-4). Some schools use it and nowadays it uses Windows 10 (very slow on its hardware).
They made those for youngsters overseas. I think mainly Africa.
The mayor of Birmingham Alabama arranged to buy a lot of these and hand out to low income households.
That mayor went to jail (unrelated afaik) and the few teachers I know haven’t seen one of these to date.
She's in love with the concept
It's funny I'm old enough to remember all the crazy hype around these. They were going to change and educate the world!
Now they're "Shrek" laptops to TH-camrs to refurbish.
You can almost hear him breaking into a laugh when he said “and a dab of eucalyptus oil”