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Due to the fact that the orders of XO-1 rugged laptop (the OLPC project, remember?) were poor, Nicholas Negroponte, head of M.I.T. Media Lab announced a promotion that will be starting November 12th, what they called Get One, Give One (G1G1). For a limited time you can purchase 2 such laptops for only $399, one of these laptops will be shipped to you, the seller, while the second one will be shipped to a child in need.

I find it to be a nice initiative, only I don’t know how well will catch this to the public. Other people wrote about this here and here and it will be nice if this will start a big movement so everybody buy such computers during this promotional offer period.

The offer is targeted to people in US and Canada. Thus a question appears: what will people in US and Canada do with these laptops? Maybe donate them to schools or what? The market of this laptop is clearly the 3rd world so such an offer targeted to rich countries may not be the best idea. We’ll wait and see…

Anyway, good luck!

Later edit: I have also observed that ruggednotebooks.com features a post on this offer to get one give one. I come to thinking more and more that this project is a bit disoriented from a marketing point of view. Guys, do you know where you’re going or what?

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It is nice to observe that today, RuggedNotebooksBlog.com features a post about our website. I must admit, I like RuggedNotebooksBlog.com and RuggedNotebooks.com and I read the blog whenever I find the time for it. It comes with useful information about rugged laptops, notebooks and all kinds of gadgets in this industry.

Most of all, I like the fact that it reviews all kind of computers and gadgets and frankly I never find the time and patience to come up with these reviews since they need time, indeed and an eye for it. I like more to follow trends and see what happens around this industry, who came up with what, etc. That is why, as I’ve already said, when I have time, I try to get a bit informed by reading RuggedNotebooksBlog.com

And I invite you also to read it since you will find good information about rugged notebooks there. Enjoy it!

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I was not aware of digital-nomads.blogspot.com blog. I found it due to some comments on my blog here and I started to read it. I found it to be quite an interesting source of technical information. Really. To me, it sounds kind of a usability blog, I mean it does not necessarily tell you why buy one thing or an other, but it gives you clues about using particular services, particular software packages, etc. It follows news in this industry of IT, works like an observer of industry news.
I remember an other blog, of a friend of mine, this time, itobserver.blogspot.com which in a way does a similar thing and by the way, I invite you to visit it!

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