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"Chromebooks are a direct descendant of the XO laptop." Is there any written evidence of this in old tech articles, etc.? I totally believe this could be possi
by jzl 9y ago
"Chromebooks are a direct descendant of the XO laptop."
Is there any written evidence of this in old tech articles, etc.? I totally believe this could be possible, but it also could be a simple case of convergent evolution.
- piracykills 9y agoThere was a whole push for netbooks like the Asus EEE PC that happened around the same time as the original XO.
- telchar 9y agoYep, I had both an XO and an EEE in that order. The look on the university help desk tech's face when I brought the XO (running puppy Linux at the time) in to get a network cert install was fun. I recall moving from the XO to the EEE mainly because the latter was faster and more pleasant to type on. There were few other competing net books at the time.
- boomlinde 9y agoThen "direct descendants" is just a poor choice of words for describing an entirely different relationship.
- avhon1 9y agoIf nothing else, I would say that chromebooks are a spiritual descendant of the OLPC. Inexpensive laptops with simple software marketed heavily towards education.