> Did their mesh network thing ever work? Yes it did. Anecdotal, but I've gotten my two OLPC XO-1 laptops to network together just fine. > did it came preload

> Did their mesh network thing ever work? Yes it did. Anecdotal, but I've gotten my two OLPC XO-1 laptops to network together just fine. > did it came preloaded with at least a few thousand sciency books on it? Yes it did. They're called Collections [0], and part of the deployment process is to select what collections will be on the laptops [1]. Here [2] is a listing of the collections on the default English release. [0] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collections http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collections [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide_2011/Purchase_Agreements_and_Ordering_Process http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide_2011/Purchase_Agr... [2] http://alexvh.me/share/olpc-library-listing.txt http://alexvh.me/share/olpc-library-listing.txt