OLPC machines are shipping

[Nicholas Bodley]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:06:35 -0500, Chris Giroir <kelsin at valefor.com>  
wrote:

[solar panel]
> Set that up in my window and get like unlimited power during the day!

They have been working hard to keep power consumption low, and it seems  
possible/likely that the solar panel could provide all the power needed.  
My present setup is just too power-hungry* to keep on 24/7, and I'd like  
to keep a low-power machine up and running 24/7. DSL does that, and so  
does Linux.
* 21" CRT (mother of all curb finds), maybe 250W, and an emachines T6532  
AMD 64 tower.

I went to their open house this past summer, and seeing it by eyeball  
instead of digital image brought home dramatically that XOs are tiny!   
Said to myself, of *course!* Dummy!
Think notebook or PDA...

Took me a while to learn what the "XO" is. It's the stylized  
circle-above-an-X logo; rotate it smiley style, and it looks like "XO".  
The logo is a stylized child.

Interesting tidbit: There are something like 24 colors used for the X and  
for the O, and they are trying to ship so that every machine in a  
small/medium batch has a different color combo; each kid will have his/her  
own.

I love the project!

-- 
Nicholas Bodley
Waltham, Mass.

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