Re: OLPC machines are shipping

["Nicholas Bodley" <user=1375@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:06:35 -0500, Chris Giroir <[hidden email]>   
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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