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Problems with the OLPC’s keyboard

Category: other notebook news

By: Matthias Bauer

The XO-laptop of the OLPC project has some problems with its keyboard. Sometimes it happens, that a key is stuck or when pressed one key there are activated its neighbours too.

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The function of the One Laptop Per Child project is offering a notebook for developing countries. This shall increase education in those countries.

The internet news site Engadget reported, that there are problems with the XO-laptops keyboard. Apparently, it is a popular problem that keys is stuck when pressed or activate more than one key at the same time.

The notebook consists of devices by different manufacturers and reducing the error to one device is not possible. If this problem occurs, then the notebook has to be send back to the manufacturer to get repaired.

 

Author: Notebookcheck, 2005-09-20 (Update: 2009-08-15)