While still contemplating jumping on the Give-One-Get-One v2.0 (G1G1 v2.0) band wagon, let's wet your appetite with the free XO emulator. This will give you a chance to:
emulate the XO laptop and load it on your existing computer
add the software
then take it for a test drive. Here is the link: http://sites.google.com/site/olpcqemu/
