Thank you for doing this, as a kid ialways wanted one of these things, and i my self was considering buying this just to see what it was like, now im glad i didnt waste $50 of my money
It would be fun to add few solar panels to it and bigger battery and make it run 24/7 with solar power. It would not be portable anymore but like the fun and joy of making it.
20:18 That's why I use AdBlock and NoScript. The internet is just infested with flash-based ads and stuff like that and it takes ages to load a page. Or some random stuff pops up in your face and you have to search the "x" to close it just to notice that the ad openes a new browser window with another ad.
it was distributed to school kids in my country a few years back. The idea was very noble but the thing is even thou it was 100$ laptop. When it came to our country, even though it was distributed freely, parents of kids who received it was told not to let their kid break this laptop otherwise they were liable to pay the amount trifold. Which made it just a show thing for most of the schools and kids. They couldn't utilize it to its fullest degree because if they broke it they would have to pay 300$ dollar which was back then quite a massive amount.
Dell0304 i'm from Peru. lots of kids on certain poor areas (specially on the highlands on central Peru) have one, you don't know how much i want one of those, i really must get one when the government decide to renew the inventory.
I had no idea that this existed. To me it seems like the forerunner to the way the computers are ultimately heading. Bright green is a popular colour now, even the OS looks a little bit like Windows 10.
The reason these PCs are so slow is because of the AMD Geode. The Geode is a rebranded National Semiconductor GX2, which is a Cyrix 5x86 SoC. The only thing AMD did to the thing was add some instruction sets and shrink the die so they could crank up the clock speed. AMD also used the Geode and the 65535/6 companion chip in their 50x15 initiative brick computers, which were equally as slow and useless. I had one with a 400 MHz Geode and I upgraded it to 512 MB of RAM. It came with a locked BIOS and Windows CE, but after reading a couple of guides I was able to unlock the BIOS and install Linux on it which is far more useful. The machine was still dog slow doing anything but basic tasks though.
I remember these. i remember an Ad on Nickelodeon. where if you donated so much money a kid in Africa would get a Lap Top. and these where the laptops. i remember thinking to myself. Why do starving kids in Africa with no internet access need a Laptop? they need food..not internet. but after watching this. i see where they would have been handy
I understand the point of this laptop... but man--I'd hate writing an essay on that keyboard xD Although, of course, it's meant to be a durable, water-resistant(?) keyboard.
it is sized for childrens hands. And typing on it is not fun at all, it had bad pressure points and bad response. The EEE PCs from that era were more usable.
I want one of those for the heck of it, but the battery I have a suggestion a 6V NiMH RC Car battery. For example I have a portable DVD player and it took a odd AA NiMH battery back which I could not find but thing took a 7.2V NiMH 2100mAh battery. I got three RC car batterys that are 7.2V 2000mAh from the radioshack that was closing. I installed the battery but I had to mod the case alittle but nothing noticeable and it still looks stock. I got about 4 hours on a full charge. Sometime you can find another battery were you don't think of them to be.
Saw one a few months ago at a local Goodwill. Not sure how much they were charging, but less than 20 bucks. At first I thought it was just one of those fake kid toy laptops due to its atrocious neon green color, so I unfortunately passed it up. It was gone the very next day.
pretty simple to do, just pull the HDD, put it on a more modern device, (likely one that supports IDE drives as I'm guessing this is a pre-SATA era device), install OS of choice, then re-install the drive. Should be good to go from there.
I never understood the point of these things when they came out. They're completely unique which means learning how to use one will not help you when you encounter a PC or Mac. And dumb phones were already common (and cheaper) in developing nations when they were being shipped.
Heheh! I remember those! Very faintly. I remember seeing something about it on a cereal box some years ago. Thinking it was something for the impaired. Still, it's a pretty interesting device minus it's performance. I find it being a very limited machine due to it's simple, yet complicated layout.
mraiwa1000 Odd how they have the camera option, but it's practically useless. A lot of features seem useless by your demonstration.Why include them then? I just don't see the point.A selling point?
A follow-up video with this thing running Puppy Linux and equipped with an SD card would be awesome! I wanted to recommend Lubuntu but it's too "resource heavy" for the XO-1, especially via installation and daily use...
Knuckles the Echidna It is possible on the original version like shown in this video, you need slipstreamed install disks though. Some custom drivers are required, but you can run Windows on the X86 compatable ones. The newer ones have a ARM v7 Marvel 1Ghz Dual Core CPU, which can only run ARM compatable Linux variants. Low power embedded devices like routers, Raspberry Pi, Android phones, ETC, use that type of CPU. Windows RT (stripped down mobile version of Windows) has support for running on ARM. You'd need to go through the pain of setting up drivers or writing some, but Windows RT might run quite nicely.
Humm. I had an old Pentium (no affix, just a straight fuckin pentium) 120 with something like 64M & a 1.9G HDD that worked very well as a firewall/router running OpenBSD. Get a text-mode browser like lynx (or links, or elinks) & you might be able to do something with it.
i own one of these also, got it for 2 bucks at my work, only thing it needs is a PSU, i have to use one that doesnt fit unless it take the side trim off
Sadly, this computer was "killed" yesterday when one of the glass shelves in the display case it was sitting in collapsed. The LCD screen is destroyed. I might fix it... but not likely. It'll remain in the cabinet indefinitely (fixed the shelf), however.
the OS is definitely not optimized for the hardware, thats for sure. Even though its 433Mhz, I remember running XP SP1 on a P2 300 and it ran really well... OLPC does, well did, sell an upgrade kit for that model which took it up to an ARM 1Ghz which powers most tablets these days. Should give it a good speed boost, and it opens it up for hacking android to run on it.
Jason Hicks Only older versians because the newer ones require at least 256MB of RAM ( Which this laptop happens to have) Please correct me if I'm wrong.
well not all require 256MB RAM... there are a few that could work well on 64MB or less RAM (if you just use command line, 16MB for SliTaz). Some variants of Puppy Linux have run decently at 32MB, Damn Small Linux says MP3s playback with 16MB RAM, 128 MB for Bodhi Linux, VectorLinux Light with 64MB... Slitaz, Bodhi and Vector are both using a active repository.. Puppy doesnt use repositories but have an update every year or so. DSL is just DSL LOL
What a great little machine this could've been with slightly more modern hardware and OS. Just a shame Apple never tried something like this, esp as one of the photographer guys actually went to Africa and showed the kids in a class his Powerbook G4 back in the day, the original iBook is what comes to mind looking at this LOL. I see they were tryin to go for a kind of Playstation control layout for games oon the side of the screen there ,great idea if there were any of those games on it. This was a great initiative I think, but it needed like I say a faster more modern implementation with something like I dunno OS-X with Spotlight for kids who didn't know how computers worked and needed to look for things by their words. Of course none of the big Western world tech giants ever aimed at this market I don't think, no idea why I suppose that would've spoiled their image or not been cost effective making something as primitive as this but maybe it wouldn't if somebody had tried. I suppose alot of folk in 3rd world countries might have iPads now with the amount thrown away to recycling so maybe this kinda thing isn't much cop nowadays who knows LOL.
IAmNotAFunguy As Sansui said, it's just a version of Linux Fedora with a custom GUI called Suger. It's apparently quite the resource hog since it was made with the scripting language Python, making it easy to modify, but in turn very slow.
Daniël's Tech & Music Channel Actually, no. It WAS originally intended as a MINIX clone, so if anything, it's based/cloned/whatever bastardized paraphrase you wish to give it, on MINIX. End rant.
Can you elaborate on what you mean at 19:03? I don't understand what you mean when you say that the sale of the OLPC brand tablet at Walmart "waters down the whole program"... Can you please explain what you mean by that...?
Hello! I have an old xo laptop with a crack screen because my stupid little brother cracked it! I'm an young adult now and I received this laptop in elementary school. Is there a way to extract the old videos and information off of it?
***** There is no way you are going to be able to use XP SP3 on a 400 MHz CPU on 256k of ram. That has to be XP Pro (no service pack) with a lot of stuff stripped out
Sounds terrible...How much money was invested in this? Interesting. Why design something that needs repairs from the user when you can't even replace the battery?
You have to remember the time in which this thing was produced. This was as close as it got to raspberry pi prices back then, and this was as much hardware as you got for the money.
Sword Kirby It already runs a modified version of linux Fedora, but apparently after a deal with Microsoft, it can run a modified XP. It can also run other linux distro's, though I doubt support for it is terribly good.
I just bought two of these OLPCs off ebay for my collection. I found out that this computer's Suger OS is available for download from their site for free. Just burn the live iso onto a cd and you can run it live on a old pc to try it out without harming your PC. It works just like on this video here. I got it to work on an old IBM thinkpad laptop with 800Mhz 512MB ram! If your comp doesn't have a cd drive then you can install the os on a bootable usb and it also won't harm your computer at all when you use it. links below: Here's a link to the live Cd image ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/ Here's how to make a bootable usb stick with sugar os on it wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads Here's an entire Sugar "activities" list (list of Sugar OS apps) wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:Activities General info on the OLPC en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child
Thank you for doing this, as a kid ialways wanted one of these things, and i my self was considering buying this just to see what it was like, now im glad i didnt waste $50 of my money
This is such a cool video for you to do. I have always wanted one of these ever since they came out.
I remember seeing those OLPC commercials on tv a few years back. The whole "give one get one" slogan was from their commercials.
It would be fun to add few solar panels to it and bigger battery and make it run 24/7 with solar power. It would not be portable anymore but like the fun and joy of making it.
I remember seeing one of these in a magazine years ago. I completely forgot about till now.
20:18 That's why I use AdBlock and NoScript. The internet is just infested with flash-based ads and stuff like that and it takes ages to load a page. Or some random stuff pops up in your face and you have to search the "x" to close it just to notice that the ad openes a new browser window with another ad.
it was distributed to school kids in my country a few years back. The idea was very noble but the thing is even thou it was 100$ laptop. When it came to our country, even though it was distributed freely, parents of kids who received it was told not to let their kid break this laptop otherwise they were liable to pay the amount trifold. Which made it just a show thing for most of the schools and kids. They couldn't utilize it to its fullest degree because if they broke it they would have to pay 300$ dollar which was back then quite a massive amount.
Nomado pineebook!!!
That reminds me of a very cheap version of the Panasonic Toughbook, since it shares similar features.
I still want one of these.
Dell0304 me too lol
ethancedrik Me three! I thought these things were cool-looking. Just brings out the child in me.
Dell0304 They're acutally like dirt cheap on Ebay.... i really wanna pick one up now... muahaha
Dell0304 i'm from Peru. lots of kids on certain poor areas (specially on the highlands on central Peru) have one, you don't know how much i want one of those, i really must get one when the government decide to renew the inventory.
Dell0304 same
lol! I remember seeing this laptop on PBS Kids give one get one commercial! back in the early 2000s! that's awsome!!!
I had no idea that this existed. To me it seems like the forerunner to the way the computers are ultimately heading. Bright green is a popular colour now, even the OS looks a little bit like Windows 10.
The reason these PCs are so slow is because of the AMD Geode. The Geode is a rebranded National Semiconductor GX2, which is a Cyrix 5x86 SoC. The only thing AMD did to the thing was add some instruction sets and shrink the die so they could crank up the clock speed.
AMD also used the Geode and the 65535/6 companion chip in their 50x15 initiative brick computers, which were equally as slow and useless. I had one with a 400 MHz Geode and I upgraded it to 512 MB of RAM. It came with a locked BIOS and Windows CE, but after reading a couple of guides I was able to unlock the BIOS and install Linux on it which is far more useful. The machine was still dog slow doing anything but basic tasks though.
Still better than the new macbook
I remember these. i remember an Ad on Nickelodeon. where if you donated so much money a kid in Africa would get a Lap Top. and these where the laptops. i remember thinking to myself. Why do starving kids in Africa with no internet access need a Laptop? they need food..not internet. but after watching this. i see where they would have been handy
The startup chime sounds identical to the first four chords of U2's "Beautiful Day". :3
I had one of these when I was like 5. I want to buy one because it's been 11-12 years and i don't remember anything about it other then it's existence
I love this little computer. I have the XO-1.5 that I won from the Win & Give promotion :)
level 1 cache is split between instruction and data, it probably was referring to that.
Skip past the first 3:33 for the actual video.
*****, You do realize that he was showing off the Reflective monochrome (for use in sunlight) and E-Book modes, right?
I understand the point of this laptop... but man--I'd hate writing an essay on that keyboard xD Although, of course, it's meant to be a durable, water-resistant(?) keyboard.
it is sized for childrens hands. And typing on it is not fun at all, it had bad pressure points and bad response. The EEE PCs from that era were more usable.
@@Flix-f6q Eee was inspired but ok
I want one of those for the heck of it, but the battery I have a suggestion a 6V NiMH RC Car battery. For example I have a portable DVD player and it took a odd AA NiMH battery back which I could not find but thing took a 7.2V NiMH 2100mAh battery. I got three RC car batterys that are 7.2V 2000mAh from the radioshack that was closing. I installed the battery but I had to mod the case alittle but nothing noticeable and it still looks stock. I got about 4 hours on a full charge. Sometime you can find another battery were you don't think of them to be.
I remember reading about these in laptop mag when it was new. I always wondered how it performed.
Saw one a few months ago at a local Goodwill. Not sure how much they were charging, but less than 20 bucks. At first I thought it was just one of those fake kid toy laptops due to its atrocious neon green color, so I unfortunately passed it up. It was gone the very next day.
pretty simple to do, just pull the HDD, put it on a more modern device, (likely one that supports IDE drives as I'm guessing this is a pre-SATA era device), install OS of choice, then re-install the drive. Should be good to go from there.
I never understood the point of these things when they came out. They're completely unique which means learning how to use one will not help you when you encounter a PC or Mac. And dumb phones were already common (and cheaper) in developing nations when they were being shipped.
Heheh! I remember those! Very faintly. I remember seeing something about it on a cereal box some years ago. Thinking it was something for the impaired.
Still, it's a pretty interesting device minus it's performance.
I find it being a very limited machine due to it's simple, yet complicated layout.
mraiwa1000 Odd how they have the camera option, but it's practically useless. A lot of features seem useless by your demonstration.Why include them then? I just don't see the point.A selling point?
Colour scheme by Kawasaki :)
Very nice
A follow-up video with this thing running Puppy Linux and equipped with an SD card would be awesome! I wanted to recommend Lubuntu but it's too "resource heavy" for the XO-1, especially via installation and daily use...
Can it run doom?
LiFePO4 is Lithium(Li)Iron(Fe)Phosphate(PO4)
Hey the webcam on that thing is the same resolution as the one in Apple's brand new MacBook :P
Thats funny, it uses part of U2's Beautiful Day for the start up chime
Yes pleeease keep it and try to run classic DOS and Windows 98!
Knuckles the Echidna
It is possible on the original version like shown in this video, you need slipstreamed install disks though.
Some custom drivers are required, but you can run Windows on the X86 compatable ones.
The newer ones have a ARM v7 Marvel 1Ghz Dual Core CPU, which can only run ARM compatable Linux variants.
Low power embedded devices like routers, Raspberry Pi, Android phones, ETC, use that type of CPU.
Windows RT (stripped down mobile version of Windows) has support for running on ARM.
You'd need to go through the pain of setting up drivers or writing some, but Windows RT might run quite nicely.
fast as shit with 98
YES
That awkward moment when Africa now has more computers per classroom than most American public schools
Humm. I had an old Pentium (no affix, just a straight fuckin pentium) 120 with something like 64M & a 1.9G HDD that worked very well as a firewall/router running OpenBSD. Get a text-mode browser like lynx (or links, or elinks) & you might be able to do something with it.
OH SH*T
I DROPPED MY OLPC XO-1
We got these in Elementary. Two kids (a boy, and girl.) got theirs taken because 1 sent the other a lewd photo. xD That was HILARIOUS
i own one of these also, got it for 2 bucks at my work, only thing it needs is a PSU, i have to use one that doesnt fit unless it take the side trim off
it was all about the Pixel Qi display
THANK YOU BBISHOPPCM FOR YOUR WONDERFUL VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will subscribe to you now.
Small Fedora laptop thingy it was...
Great fun, I always fancied one of those OLPC machines too. What is the wallpaper on your macbook btw? (The buildings) looks cool
Sadly, this computer was "killed" yesterday when one of the glass shelves in the display case it was sitting in collapsed. The LCD screen is destroyed. I might fix it... but not likely. It'll remain in the cabinet indefinitely (fixed the shelf), however.
Guess it wasn't that rugged after all.
That's a shame. I can sell you a replacement OLPC, or just a screen, if you're interested.
So much for asking if u can run doom on it XD (was a joke). F*%$ing gravity, always killing stuff.
You should see if you can get Windows XP starter on there, just to fit the mood.
Nice views, Canada?
the OS is definitely not optimized for the hardware, thats for sure. Even though its 433Mhz, I remember running XP SP1 on a P2 300 and it ran really well...
OLPC does, well did, sell an upgrade kit for that model which took it up to an ARM 1Ghz which powers most tablets these days. Should give it a good speed boost, and it opens it up for hacking android to run on it.
***** The AMD Geodes, in early form, really weren't all that powerful. A 300 MHz PII is probably a fair bit more powerful.
THEtechknight amd geode not with sse isa!!!
in xp klite codeck pack 1.54 isa better
Puppy Linux runs on everything LOL Even my old P3 600Mhz laptop with 32MB RAM :D
Jason Hicks Only older versians because the newer ones require at least 256MB of RAM ( Which this laptop happens to have)
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
well not all require 256MB RAM... there are a few that could work well on 64MB or less RAM (if you just use command line, 16MB for SliTaz). Some variants of Puppy Linux have run decently at 32MB, Damn Small Linux says MP3s playback with 16MB RAM, 128 MB for Bodhi Linux, VectorLinux Light with 64MB... Slitaz, Bodhi and Vector are both using a active repository.. Puppy doesnt use repositories but have an update every year or so. DSL is just DSL LOL
Jason Hicks
Thanks for the info!
***** holy sh!t ;)
Jason Hicks i am running puppy in transmeta laptop
It's the Happy 8600!
Cool PCs
its neat the os is not optimzed for the hardware even though its lightweight it can be made lighter lol
3.1 would be cool
What a great little machine this could've been with slightly more modern hardware and OS.
Just a shame Apple never tried something like this, esp as one of the photographer guys actually went to Africa and showed the kids in a class his Powerbook G4 back in the day, the original iBook is what comes to mind looking at this LOL.
I see they were tryin to go for a kind of Playstation control layout for games oon the side of the screen there ,great idea if there were any of those games on it.
This was a great initiative I think, but it needed like I say a faster more modern implementation with something like I dunno OS-X with Spotlight for kids who didn't know how computers worked and needed to look for things by their words.
Of course none of the big Western world tech giants ever aimed at this market I don't think, no idea why I suppose that would've spoiled their image or not been cost effective making something as primitive as this but maybe it wouldn't if somebody had tried.
I suppose alot of folk in 3rd world countries might have iPads now with the amount thrown away to recycling so maybe this kinda thing isn't much cop nowadays who knows LOL.
LiFePO4 = lithium iron phosphate, aka the A123 battery cell.
The operating system on there is a proprietary UNIX-based operating system.
IAmNotAFunguy Actually, it's an open-source Linux-based OS.
IAmNotAFunguy As Sansui said, it's just a version of Linux Fedora with a custom GUI called Suger. It's apparently quite the resource hog since it was made with the scripting language Python, making it easy to modify, but in turn very slow.
IAmNotAFunguy It's a modified version of Fedora Linux. It can also run a custom version of Windows XP
Daniël's Tech & Music Channel No, it's not.. it IS POSIX compliant though, making it LOOK or somewhat FUNCTION like a UNIX variant.
Daniël's Tech & Music Channel Actually, no. It WAS originally intended as a MINIX clone, so if anything, it's based/cloned/whatever bastardized paraphrase you wish to give it, on MINIX. End rant.
I'm surprised no one has asked if it can run Crisis?
Wasn't this the one that you could win in the Gushers Contest?
can you run Crysis on this???
did you win that with a cereal box code?
you may be able to run AndroidX86 on that should run ok its worth a try
good computer.
Can you elaborate on what you mean at 19:03? I don't understand what you mean when you say that the sale of the OLPC brand tablet at Walmart "waters down the whole program"... Can you please explain what you mean by that...?
No, no I cannot.
Love your name, by the way.
how far can you go and still get wifi reception?
What mountain is that? It looks awfully familiar....
+Andrew Courtemanche Crotched
Yes.
I have one, I despise the OS, even the "Hidden" GNOME part
is it possible to install windows or puppy linux on this?
DoomGuy Pictures On paper, yes. I don't own one so I don't know
Hello! I have an old xo laptop with a crack screen because my stupid little brother cracked it! I'm an young adult now and I received this laptop in elementary school. Is there a way to extract the old videos and information off of it?
I personally would not be able to type on that thing.
Apparently there is another OS upgrade:
wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose
Can you run Windows/Android/Linux on these laptops?
Aren't these the laptops they give to developing schools in Africa?
sounds like dos Machine to me
Why don't you put/ Dual Boot windows 95? or hell, 98 on the thing?
GaminGod Coffeeman Drivers may be an issue.
GaminGod Coffeeman it can run XP
GaminGod Coffeeman it can run XP
ethancedrik XP SP3 crawls on systems with significantly more CPU power and that level of RAM.
***** There is no way you are going to be able to use XP SP3 on a 400 MHz CPU on 256k of ram. That has to be XP Pro (no service pack) with a lot of stuff stripped out
reborn in pinebook and sylvania anda netbooks
So Linux failed outside of servers once again...
Sounds terrible...How much money was invested in this? Interesting. Why design something that needs repairs from the user when you can't even replace the battery?
On that weird side of TH-cam again
Why does this video belong on the weird side of the internet?
A Raspberry Pi Zero is more powerful than this thing and it only costs $5.
You have to remember the time in which this thing was produced. This was as close as it got to raspberry pi prices back then, and this was as much hardware as you got for the money.
Could you run XP or a Linux distribution on it?
Sword Kirby It already runs a modified version of linux Fedora, but apparently after a deal with Microsoft, it can run a modified XP.
It can also run other linux distro's, though I doubt support for it is terribly good.
Sword Kirby I've seen them running XP first hand
Sword Kirby After looking it up, yes Windows XP can be installed and make it a fully functional Windows XP machine.
i wonder what the specs are
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I just bought two of these OLPCs off ebay for my collection. I found out that this computer's Suger OS is available for download from their site for free. Just burn the live iso onto a cd and you can run it live on a old pc to try it out without harming your PC. It works just like on this video here. I got it to work on an old IBM thinkpad laptop with 800Mhz 512MB ram! If your comp doesn't have a cd drive then you can install the os on a bootable usb and it also won't harm your computer at all when you use it. links below:
Here's a link to the live Cd image
ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/
Here's how to make a bootable usb stick with sugar os on it
wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads
Here's an entire Sugar "activities" list (list of Sugar OS apps)
wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:Activities
General info on the OLPC
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child
100% tablete
Damn that thing is ugly