I’ve have a number of RSS feed subscriptions one of which is the VM blog. This little nugget dropped in my inbox, while it was in relation to running a virtual machine on these Laptops (Which even after reading the blog I couldn’t really understand or see the point of) I had heard of these so call $100.00 laptops before the idea being that Computer Technology is more available to less fortunate country’s and individuals. The One Laptop per Child association (OLPC) is a Delaware based, non-profit organization set up to oversee The Children’s Machine project. I’m ashamed to admit that I want one even though they clearly aimed at children I think the design is really cool plus it runs Fedora.
The specifications are;
| The Children’s Machine | |
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| Manufacturer | Quanta Computers |
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| Type | Laptop |
| Connectivity | 802.11b/g /s wireless LAN 3 USB 2.0 ports |
| Operating System | Fedora Core-based |
| Camera | built-in video camera (640×480; 30 FPS) |
| Media | 512 MiB 1 GiB flash memory |
| Input | Keyboard Touchpad microphone |
| Power | NiMH battery pack |
| CPU | AMD Geode GX500@1.0W + 5536 |
| Memory | 128 MiB DRAM |
| Display | dual-mode 19.3 cm diagonal TFT LCD 1200×900 |