One Laptop Per Child pledge

[Puissante]

Jeff Kinz wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:01:52PM -0400, Fred wrote:
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> ...
> The original design called for a hand crank but it was determined that
> it would stress the frame too much.  Current plans call for a foot
> pedal to produce power.  None of the power plans require more than
> periodic "power generation" effort. :-)
>   
Flintstone Technology. ;-)
>> Methinks someone has a pipe dream. I can just see it now. All of these 
>> villagers are given these PCs, which are dead after the first hour or two of 
>> use. But hey, I'm sure they'll find novel uses for dead PCs.
>>     
> Twenty years ago we had laptops that ran off double A batteries for
> days, (and for some people, weeks) at a time.  I'm fairly certain we can
> do better than "two hours".
>   
We'll see. :-)
> Like the OLPC units those old laptops used low power display technology,
> miserly CPU's and used software that was much smarter about what machine
> resources it used and how it used them.  And one more interesting
> parallel - neither those old laptops nor the current OLPC's used ANY
> rotating storage.
>   
Ok, there is hope. Hard drives sucks -- power!

--Fred