Hi, www.solarpc.com has a variety of motherboards and cases that can be built up into low-power (less than 10 watts), low-voltage (12 volt) systems at reasonable prices. And batteries can store the electricity for night and not-so-bright days. While these low-power-consumption computers are not aimed at the high-end game-playing market, they do have multimedia application with some of the higher-end boxes.
More importantly for a lot of countries: "SolarPC recognizes that it is important for many large organizations to be able to obtain consistent PC products for projects that may take years to complete. They also understand that people around the world need to have low cost access to Solar's long life PC's. To promote that idea SolarPC subscribes to the OpenHardware concept. With OpenHardware large organizations can obtain a perpetual license for SolarPC designs to build or source machines for their internal use. In addition organizations in countries outside of the US have the option to manufacture SolarPC's locally if the cost to build them is less than the import cost plus customs duties." Note, however, that ambient temperatures greater than 95 degrees F should add a fan to the box, which increases power consumption, and these low power requirements usually mean a Flash disk as the "hard drive" (which is not necessarily bad in dirty or salty climates). md -- Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association, USENIX Association (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (R)Linux International is a registered trademark in the USA used pursuant to a license from Linux Mark Institute, authorized licensor of Linus Torvalds, owner of the Linux trademark on a worldwide basis (R)UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the USA and other countries. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
