Misc References
Smaller PCs Cause Worry for Industry - NYT, July 21, 2008
OLPC as industry disruptor - CNN article (scroll to end)
Gartner report says $100 laptops still 3 years away
the $130 Linux laptop - (in lots of 100). Compared to the XO, it has less features, less memory (128 MB, holy cow), less storage. Slightly slower, and I’m betting on a higher power draw. But it’s aimed more at “traditional” laptop users, so the keyboard is more “normal” and the OS the same (well, it’s a Linux, not proprietary). They start straight off informing users that all storage will be on USB drives, which is what happens for most non-student users of the XOs, as well.
quest for the 12-computer - Boston Herald article
according to the article,
98-dollar linux laptop - HN thread on the HiVision miniNote
Global Nerdy tells finds a sub-$100 netbook is Cheap as in Crap: made by Coby.
more on the COBY midget from Liliputing
This does sound interesting — it may be a cheap piece of crap that rattles, doesn’t feel quite real, and breaks after two months. But that will continue to push the industry.... Now, if it had a touchscreen? I’d buy it soon. Even so, $100 sounds awfully sweet....
4-P computing
4P: computer Power, Performance, Price, and Portability perfectly/appropriately suited for the developing world
Wayan Vota presentation on 4P computing
Asus is market leader?
http://wayan.com/4p-computing/
ARM-based laptops
ARM: a 32-bit RISC processor architecture
from a comment in the Gertner report, above: “ARM based Laptops will reach $100 within a few months.”
http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?t=16208&highlight=arm+laptop
un-completed MAKE project
MAKE article, from early in the OLPC hype cycle (the reference photos are the early digital mock-ups w/ the built-in generator), where Phillip Torrone proposed to mod-up a 1996 apple eMate (25Mhz, 3MB RAM - and I thought the XO was low-powered!) into a sub-$100 laptop
Some interesting thoughts on scalability of multi-unit manufacturing, and our throw-away electronic consumer culture.
The project above never seems to have been completed, but here are some more notes
$10 laptop from India???
India working on $10 laptop - Endgadget
$10 laptop plans - ArsTechnica
OLPC news on India $10 laptop
quest for the $200 web tablet
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/21/we-want-a-dead-simple-web-tablet-help-us-build-it/
battery life
battery-life on ultraportables is difficult task - ultra-portables are not nesc. cheap (they can often be more expensive, if “standard” performance is required — the XO achieves some of its cheapness w/ a slow processer, low memory, low storage. Better battery usage through improved display and other power-management features. Anyway, a related field. see also AlternativePower
Light Book?
A $20 E Book Reader (as in “conceptually”)
http://www.martin-woodhouse.co.uk/page76aa.html
http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=414.0
See also
Tags
hardware portable computers XO OLPC cheap
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