Sunday, May 28, 2006

MIT $100 Dollar laptop now a working prototype!





The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) initiative wants to bring computing to the poorer countries and MIT has been working on a $100 dollar laptop for a while. The first working prototype pictures have been uploaded on flickr. Take a look.
The proposed $100 machine will be a Linux-based (Edubuntu), with a dual-mode display—both a full-color, transmissive DVD mode, and a second display option that is black and white reflective and sunlight-readable at 3× the resolution.
The laptop will have a 500MHz processor and 128MB of DRAM, with 500MB of Flash memory; it will not have a hard disk, but it will have four USB ports. The laptops will have wireless broadband that, among other things, allows them to work as a mesh network; each laptop will be able to talk to its nearest neighbors, creating an ad hoc, local area network. The laptops will use innovative power (including wind-up) and will be able to do most everything except store huge amounts of data.

[Via:OLPC]

1 Comments:

At 12/28/2009 08:42:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Strange any dialogue turns out..

 

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