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November 21, 2007

6 days remaining for the One Laptop Per Child XO Laptop Give 1 Get 1 program. As mentioned here previously, Give 1 Get 1 means you pay $399 for 2 units, one of them goes to you and the other goes to charity. The $200 charity portion is tax deductible, and gift matchable.

T-Mobile pledges 1 year of free wi-fi hotspot use to all Give 1 Get 1 Participants.

Also mentioned here before, but I'll link it again because it's a great brief intro: David Pogue's video review of the XO. Not linked here before, an April '07 Google TechTalk on some of the technical aspects of the XO.

I'm looking forward to sharing my XO with my kids. After I've had a chance to play with it, of course. Maybe I should have ordered 2 after all... Or 3...