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designed to solve the challenges outlined above, and not a typical
"laptop" in almost any dimension you care to name.

Where's the Crank? (you are asking...) Human power is still a major
program priority! Inside the laptop isn’t always optimal as human
power is not always required. Human power stresses components. The crank
is great symbol, but not the most efficient for actual generation. We
are performing human motion studies: legs are stronger than arms, but
arms may be free while walking to school. AC Adapters are already
located on the ground/ and floor. Several types of generators are under
development, including one integrated with AC Adapter. More freedom of
motion will allow for optimum power generation.
Photographs of First Prototype Electronics

Power up of the first OLPC electronics prototype boards occurred April
15, 2006. Power and ground testing continued over the weekend, and
formal debug and BIOS bring up started Monday, April 17, 2006 at Quanta
Computer's labs in Taipei, Taiwan. By Wednesday, April 19, Linux was
booting on the first generation prototypes.

    * Component side OLPC circuit board
    * Back side of the OLPC circuit board
    * Picture of Linux running with circuit board in the lab
    * Picture of the screen of Linux running on the OLPC circuit board;
fittingly, it shows a Chinese desktop 

Second Generation Design

Second-generation unit will use a more power-efficient integrated
Geode-based AMD chip (instead of the GX500/5536 set), presuming it is
the best alternative available at the time, and probably a next
generation wireless chip. 

-- 
Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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