Sabi ni Erin noong Wed, Nov 8, 2006 at 12:35 PM:
that wiki pertains to a different machine which is only available to bulk orders by governments (required to break even with the manufacturing costs)
Minimum one million -- that's why one of the participants in the Digital Divide Network discussion list referred to it as the US$100 million laptop. Although US$100 million laptop*s* would be more accurate.
and is a MIT brainchild. the machine in the inq7 article is designed/assembled locally and reading the article more, i think it only pertains to the CPU. i maybe wrong if it uses LCD (say from an old handheld) for its output.
It's got standard PS/2 and USB ports, two of each. So you can use a PS/2 or USB mouse and keyboard. Oddly enough, I didn't notice a VGA port although I have to admit that, strangely enough, I didn't look for it. I half-joked that i expected the display on the cover of the case. As an aside, the speaker (Rufino Mananghaya) tossed the computer to the floor and invited the audience to pass it around. He even bragged that they could kick it around. Maybe because it was a non-working prototype? <g> Seriously, it has no moving parts so maybe it *was* robust enough to get kicked around literally. His only concern was the memory card, which was in a standard slot (DIMM?) and might come loose with too much jostling around. He added that memory soldered to the board would make it more robust. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
