I believe that the OLPC XO-3 is an impressive device. It includes technologies that I look forward to in the mainstream devices like the iPad and the Android tablets. The flexible display is a precursor to Nokia’s flexible displays and the screens ability to shift in sunlight is what it will take to make the e-reader obsolete. Great features do not make an item a suitable replacement. Jeff Dunn’s post “Five Reasons the OLPC Could Replace Classroom iPads” 
gave decent, albeit naïve, reasons. I am the Technology Director for a school district in a small, rural, financially challenged area. The theory behind the OLPC tablet makes perfect sense for us. On average our students have fewer technology choices in their home and providing them a laptop to take home is logical. This product does not fulfill the requirements that our students need and here is why:
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