On 24/10/09 00:36, Daniel Pope wrote:
> John Cooper wrote:
>> Mike, they are designed for primary school (small keyboard) so may not
>> be suitable. The problem at the moment is you cannot buy them as they
>> have withdrawn the buy one, give one programme via Amazon. This is
>> really frustrating. The only source for small numbers is via eBay and
>> usually from the US (where I bought mine).
>
> I downloaded a Sugar VM this week having failed to get it to work
> natively under Ubuntu.
>
> A brief review: It's utter pants.
>
> It's a bunch of fairly crappy software tied together with an even
> crappier user interface. I reject the idea that this is some microcosm
> of cutting-edge computing. The whole field of usability is completely
> neglected. Decades of user interface design has been ignored. Why? NIH?
>
> Dan
>
It is designed for education and easy learning for someone who has never
used a computer before. It is a very different interface, using a
journal to log task you do and therefore making it easy to go back to. I
found it difficult at first because of my file based computer use. I
believe the developers have worked hard to create a new UI and the proof
is it is being used and improved. The hardware design is incredible and
very innovative,making it easy to fix and maintain over the years.
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