...or Santa will leave you a lump of coal.

And yes to the one poster... you can cancel and get a refund http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/terms-and-conditions.php see #7

Or you can go to e-Bay and buy one (1) for a "Buy It Now" for as much as $650U.S. These babies are are as hot as the WII and Guitar Hero.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home summarizing....

.... Oh Canada... We at OLPC are very sorry about the Canadian shipment situation: we underestimated the time it would take us to fully work out the import duties and taxes and we were not clear in our communication to you. We apologize for everyone with a child who will not receive a laptop this year. You can visit the laptopgiving.org website to download a gift http://laptopgiving.org/en/gift-cards.php card that lets your child know that an XO laptop is on its way; it is obviously not the same as a laptop, but we hope it helps in some small way. We are working on the logistics of getting XOs to Canada: everyone should have their XO in the January/February time frame. The team at OLPC wants to thank everyone who has thus far participated in Give One Get One. Thanks to the generosity of Canadians, more than 4000 children in the least-developed countries will be receiving laptops in early 2008. --Walter http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Walter 20:39, 20 December 2007 (EST) ...

The free one year t-mobile account for U.S users is equivalent to the $399 GOGI offer. You get your XO laptop for free!

And those 4000 laptop donations from Canada ... we have a couple of t-mobile hot spots in Canada at some of our international airports. Basically, the t-mobile offer means nothing to us.

One the bright side, Canadian's are buying the XO for less than $399US.

And finally:

It's an education project, not a laptop project.

-Nicholas http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Nicholas_Negroponte Negroponte

Have a great holiday everyone.

73, Alan VE4YZ EN19 AMSAT LM 2352 blocked::http://www.mts.net/~ve4wsc/ http://www.mts.net/~ve4wsc/ AMSAT A-485