Comments on: first machine in cambridge

By: LavernRengerson

LavernRengerson — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:27:49 +0000

Oh I like that! Nice post.
This place is alright…I’ll be back for sure.

By: Kozuch

Kozuch — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:22:24 +0000

Thanx for the pics, they are really nice!

By: Rod

Rod — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:16:32 +0000

I agree with George’s point. I also firmly believe that greater awareness of the effort should be brought to the philanthropic community around the world. If free access to information is truly the great equalizer, there could be no greater gift for a child, especially during this time of the year.Can you imagine the type of goodwill that could be unleashed if a non-profit organization dedicated itself solely to turning contributions into distributions of these laptops around the developing world?

By: Revolution

Revolution — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:20:30 +0000

I agree with J.McNair. In fact I’d suggest you make a Black Case version for adults. This way you have an extra market for first world users and a distinction between the ‘Childrens’ green version and the Adult version.

I can easily imagine an order for 1 Million from US stores. And thats just for the inital quantity.

This neatly solves the concerns I had for selling OLPC laptops on eBay etc.

By: george

george — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:38:48 +0000

Great idea, Hope it is possibe to run Linux Ubuntu on the machine then it will be a success. I will be interested to buy one 100$ machine and give away to a needing child in a development country.

By: J. McNair

J. McNair — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 03:56:34 +0000

Your quote: “… the display doesn’t look as good.” is a bold-faced lie. That is some of the crispest, most beautiful text I have EVER seen on any electronic display that wasn’t an E-Ink prototype. the only (insignificant) problems I can notice are the “rainbow” effect, which is typical of most reflective displays, and glare, which is universal. Your lovely charity could paint these a boring color (black, white or gray), sell these for US $400 and corner the e-book market for a decade. The profits could then be used to subsidize more machines. Fortunately, you won’t. :)

I wonder if the OLPC distro’s graphical environment turns off anti-aliasing in black and white mode? At 200 dpi, which is almost as good as paper, you shouldn’t NEED it, it would save a tiny bit of system resources, and most people wouldn’t notice or care. I read on the wiki that the DCON chip gives you anti-aliasing free in color mode, so I doubt you’d need to do any software anti-aliasing in the first place.

Also, my compliments and thanks to all the people (including yourself) who may have brought forth what may be the most innovative thing to come to portable computing since Apple’s original Powerbook.

–JM

By: Quert

Quert — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:25:40 +0000

Too glossy :P

By: Xero

Xero — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:34:48 +0000

The antennas are obviously quite sturdy. The buttons only have a passing resemblance to those on a Sony controller, and there are no patents that I know of on alphanumeric symbols and geometric shapes.

By: numpty

numpty — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:52:23 +0000

Hmm, what do Sony think about the Playstation buttons? I thought they’d copyrighted those?

By: John Gilmore

John Gilmore — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:27:36 +0000

Congratulations, Christopher (and the whole now-sleeping team)!