[Marketing] Ars Technica article on 250, 000 XO-1s for India: old Sugar home view in photo :-(

[Walter Bender]

What we should strive for is some shots that give a sense of the
learning that is happening, not just pretty pictures of laptops... how
to do that???

-walter

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Christian, in fact I have a friend who is a studio photographer and
> when I asked last week he offered to do ad-quality studio shots on a
> white background.
>
> He said he preferred adding screens in Photoshop, that it's too
> complicated to direct light onto a computer without making the screen
> look awful.
>
> I have half a dozen XO-1s, a Classmate, an EeePC and and Acer Aspire One.
>
> Ideally, shots with both v0.82 on an XO-1 and SoaS on the XO-1 and the
> other machines woould be cool I think...
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt
> <christianmarc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sean, on laptop.org we used retouched images of the XO with a mockup of the
>> interface on the screen that was later added in Photoshop:
>> http://www.laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/index.shtml
>>
>> I think it would be useful to shoot Sugar 0.82 on the XO-1 and also other
>> the classmate and other hardware isolated against a white background,
>> similar to the way these photos were shot. Perhaps Mike can help with that?
>> We could point him towards these images for guidance...
>>
>>
>> Christian
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/04/india-embraces-olpc-buys-250000-xo-laptops.ars
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if a similar XO-1 photo with Sugar 0.82 is available?
>>>
>>> Sean
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