The Nexus 7 is already a great, durable, child-friendly tablet, and it has been available to anyone for years. It's exactly the right size for small hands and

The Nexus 7 is already a great, durable, child-friendly tablet, and it has been available to anyone for years. It's exactly the right size for small hands and arms. Install anything you like on it. For a more learning-oriented kidputer, the Leappad is available. Kind of expensive with every app/game costing $20 extra, but oh well. OLPC's products have never been available for consumer sale - this is the first one. They've been around for eight years. And they've finally launched their first product, which is going to be sold exclusively through Walmart, a company people should have philosophical objections to buying from, and which is known for squeezing their suppliers to death. I don't see any mention of the specs which means to me that "underpowered" is the right word to use. If you want to buy an underpowered, crappy, no-updates Android tablet, you can get one nearly for free from DealExtreme. They'll sell you one for $60 with free shipping. I'm not even making that up. I had such high hopes for OLPC when it was first started. But they've lost the track, gone off the rails, whatever metaphor you want to use.