Still *trying* to have fun with the OLPC

My daughter (9 yrs) has been playing around with the OLPC laptop for about a week now. Her progress has been fairly predictable. The computer really is very easy to figure out. She’s especially drawn to the mutlimedia applications that respond to her in some way. Her favorites until now have been the TamTam musical applications and the face that speaks what she types.
The computer is definitely made for children – small children. There’s no way that I can possibly use the keyboard for blind typing. My fingers are simply too large. But, it’s perfect for my daughter and she finds it much easier to type on the OLPC than, for instance, my “grown-up” laptop. I’ve heard about US schools buying OLPCs for children as old as 12 yrs old and I wonder how suitable the keyboard is for them. I can imagine that for many of them it is already too small to be able to work effectively.
One thing that has bothered me about the OLPC is how many bugs there seem to be still in the system. The computer has frozen many times in the course of just one week. The only solution is to force it off and reboot. Considering that the OLPC has been around for quite some time now, I would have expected fewer bugs. The frequency of the problems is very disruptive. Another problem is how slow the web browsing is. This may be due to the WPA2 security on the wireless network that we’re using. Still, it makes browsing a very time consuming and tedious task.
The OLPC can obviously use more work. Our experience suggests that the notion that the laptop can be handed to a child and they let figure things out with minimal interference is rather farfetched, mainly because of the freezes and other problems that we have regularly encountered.