My experience with the XO-1.5 has been much better:
4) Both Browse and Firefox on Gnome don't load certain popular
sites
(see below).
I don't go to Gnome - I run both Browse and Firefox under Sugar.
Neither Browse nor Firefox had any trouble whatsoever with either of
those sites (Skype, Major League Baseball).
Browse behaved nicely - if I clicked on one of the panels in the
Baseball site, it opened a smaller window within the current one.
With Firefox, I had to figure out what was happening - it opened
another (full screen) Sugar window - so I had to go to the icon in
Frame to close that subwindow.
My explanation for the difference in behavior is *flash* -- I'm
using the latest plugin from Adobe -- and I suspect you are not.
[Firefox for me has video size adjustment problems - but that's
firefox interfacing with video support, not "browsing" per se.
Other browsers on XO-1.5 do not have the video size problem.]
3) The network still shows three copies of every access point.
I'm using os32. Have not used access points much (at home I have
wired rather than wireless), but every location I've been in,
Neighborhood View has shown me only one icon for every accessible
access point.
[But these days (os32), Frame is showing me two batteries -- and the
percentage of charge is different between the two !!]
2) Infoslicer always claimed it couldn't reach the network
Did not run Infoslicer when away from home - so haven't tried it.
1) ... someone hovered over the XO on
the desktop to pull up the config menu. The menu would open, not
display text, and the mouse and interface would stop working.
I've had similar hurdles with Home View. What I've always been able
to do is "brute force" - move the cursor, click, move the cursor,
click, etc. So far, Home View responsiveness has always come back.
[I've been using an external USB trackball with the XO-1.5.]
mikus