On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:01:52PM -0400, Fred wrote: > Anyway, just to add my own $0.02, I don't see the $100 PC making much f a > difference -- unless it can connect to the Internet. Otherwise the "third > world" will be limited to whatever content and software their respective > governments will allow to be installed on those PCs.
Er. The machines are running Linux -- Fedora Core or some RedHat variant? -- and the machines are designed to create ad-hoc wireless networks. > Oh, and unless these PCs can be run with a hand crank or solar cells, still > pretty useless in many parts of the world. And with the typical power > consumption of laptop CPUs, that's a lot of hand cranking. And I don't see > how you can keep the costs down to $100 if you have to include solar cells. Hand cranks or other similar alternative power options have always been the plan for the $100 OLPC laptops. The earlier marketing materials have always included pictures including a hand crank. There's ongoing discussion within the project as to how to accomodate the power needs of the laptop without depending on people to have wall sockets. Note that the laptops have no hard drives (flash only), relatively small screens, and are designed to run in black and white mode most of the time for better power consumption. Also note that these aren't PCs... I think that either you or I is completely misunderstanding the purpose of the project, or suffering under some similarly constricting misunderstanding. Care to enlighten me as to which it might be? -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
