Am 18.04.2009 um 08:16 schrieb NoiseEHC <noise...@freemail.hu>: > Hi! > I would like to ask these questions from OLPC staff: >> >>> Does this also mean that people who already own XOs will find that >>> new >>> software is going to require a computer more powerful than they >>> currently have? I thought that that was something that was going >>> to be >>> specifically avoided. >>> >> This is going to be a hard trap not to fall into, although several of >> the primary activities (Browse and Write) are based on desktop >> products that are not necessarily aimed at low-power or embedded >> systems, so I don't know if things will actually be any different. >> > What about the integrated 3D support? Are you planning to support > OpenGL? In that case there will be a very wide performance gap (like > 3D acceleration vs no 3D acceleration)...
I honestly can't think of a use-case for including any sort of 3D acceleration into the basic Sugar and activities. There's about a million significantly more important things that people should be working on before even thinking about 3D (IMHO). > Also it seems that this machine will be on par with current > Netbooks. Are you planning to sell it through normal distribution > channels? (As I am interested in theat still no Netbook has the > display or the indestructible design my XO has.) I'd be very surprised if OLPC started selling the XO-1.5 via regular sales channels. Christoph _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel