It's cute and nice. Here are a couple of pictures:

Continue reading on the [OlpcXoTips] page. There rest of the pictures are here.

The original goal was that it would be a laptop for the kids to play with. That's still the goal, but I'm going to play with it first ;-) I need to see what activities would be good for them and maybe program some things I have in mind or alter existing stuff for my needs and then have them play with it under supervision.

Last time I was ranting about how our last Brother HL-1440 sucked and we replaced it by an HP LaserJet 1012.

Turns out the HP LaserJet 1012 sucks too.

I always knew it was an "host-based" printer, meaning the Windows box is the one that prepares the image and sends it to the printer. What I didn't know is that it is actually a more powerful printer which is caped down due to some firmware bugs. These bugs are known by HP but they choose to ignore them, as one can read one this forum page: HP LaserJet 1012 Unsupported Personality PCL.

In my case, 3 years down the road, the printers works fine, very fine. When it decides to work that is, which doesn't happen very often. Continue reading the HP LaserJet 1012 rant for the full details.

So is another HP LaserJet going to suck too? What other printer would you recommend?