Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 27th Apr 2007 07:10 UTC
"The founder of the ambitious "$100 laptop" project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed Thursday that the machine for now costs $175, and it will be able to run Windows in addition to its homegrown, open-source interface." More here.
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2007-04-23
One of the risks of subsidized computers in poor countries is that they easily "disappear" and resurface on the black market. Making it possible to run Windows on the computers makes them much more valuable for such a market.
So to reduce the risk of misuse, these OLPC machines should use a CPU that can't run Windows. Even Windows CE is a bit dubious, but probably hard to avoid.
Given the goal of reducing power use, x86 also seems odd. For similar compute power, an ARM with integrated LCD controller would probably use less. I haven't seen the power figures on the AMD CPU that is used in the design, so I can't be sure, though.
But I guess Linux on an x86 is the easiest choice.