I posted some pics of the latest OLPC prototypes a few weeks ago. Well... I got to see them 2 weeks in a row; so here are some more pics of the machine up close.
... Seems the whole "hand crank" idea is gone. There is now a pullchord on the external power supply with a 10:1 ratio (1 minute of pulling = 10 mins of computing) for manually recharging power... The keyboard is tiny and soft feeling. The screen is small but is very viewable in direct light without backlighting (which is probably the #1 power drain on laptops).
OLPC rocks!
Me geeking out:
Old school meets new school... Gerald J. Sussman (yes, the MIT Scheme guy) playing with the latest OLPC prototype:
Closeups:
.. these machines run a scaled down version of Fedora Linux that is loaded with Python applications.
-Corey
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