I decided in November to buy an XO laptop through the "give 1 get 1" program and it arrived on Dec 15th. It's an interesting device. I have been parading it around town trying to drum up support for the project before the Dec 31st deadline. I have gotten about a dozen people to buy one for themselves or the child in their life. Few, if any, are Linuxheads or gadgeteers. Adults seem to have problems with the Sugar interface (no "desktop", "windows", "folders" etc), but kids just focus on the activities and don't want to give the laptop back. The track pad is the only hardware problem (it needs recalibrating every so often but will be fixed in next firmware). This is definitely not a consumer gadget, at least not without software modifications. I've installed Adobe Flash and Helix media player but for now I will leave the Sugar interface in place. My guess is that people will get other distros running on this very soon. I bought a 770 two years ago ($350 + $50 MMC) because I thought it might be a cool, hackable device that ran Linux and I wanted to vote with my dollars to encourage development in that space, i.e. handheld tablets. I bought an XO laptop ($400) because I thought it might be a cool, hackable device that ran Linux and I wanted to vote with my dollars to encourage development in that space, i.e. durable low-cost computing to help ease the global digital divide.