Windows XP On OLPC Gets Slowly Tested

[Shrygue]

via Gizmodo


We showed you the first footage of an OLPC booting the official Windows XP installation back in June, but now Laptop has given the XP-sporting XO a quick round of testing, and unsurprisingly, things are a bit sluggish. The XO's hardware has gone unchanged for the XP edition, so Windows boots off of an SD card which also packs Office, IE, and other apps. While IE fired up in five seconds, the OS took 1 minute 24 seconds to boot, and no one should be surprised that multitasking on the little guy's 256MB of RAM was not fun. Mesh networking is also not making it to the Windows version, unfortunately, but kids can still dual-boot into the Sugar OS for that.

[cal360]

Huh my computer boots at that speed and it's only a year old. I really need to update by what they say about the OLPC though I'm running Vista and my computer wasn't built to run vista.

[the_eternal_dark]

Ummm, hate to say I told you so.

LOL.

[ICE]

Thats a slow boot for a portable.. Sorta defeats the purpose of it being slow lol.

My Eee boots XP in about 30 seconds :P
Take that crappy other netbook thing!