This video interview [1] is interesting in that it show the perspectives of two individuals about the XO laptop. One is from Texas (Bruce Sterling [2]), while the other (Jasmina Tesanovic [3]) is from Serbia. Their viewpoints about its utility, its price and its place in the geo-political arena makes for an interesting 9 minutes.
Oh, and there is the occasional sprinkling of "Linux, blah, blah, blah"