Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 8th Jul 2008 19:39 UTC, submitted by snydeq
Decrying stasis in the laptop industry, InfoWorld's Tom Yager and crew have designed their ideal laptop for 2009 given the components are available currently. The project was subjected to the same limitations manufacturers face when whiteboarding a new notebook and introduced only those components that would increase end-user productivity manyfold. The resulting AMD Puma-based WorldBook Ether and WorldBook Meteor [specs, tour, pricing] include an 'Embedded Smartphone' system-in-system ARM microcontroller, flash-memory overlay for fast boot, and ATI/AMD Hybrid Graphics for power-saving switched mode.
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Why doesn't anyone just commercialize the design of the OLPC? I consider that almost perfect except for maybe the size (adult size please), color, and distro. Are companies prevented from doing so by patents? I mean they could share almost everything with OLPC except for size differences but that should be easy to compensate for while still helping to reduce most of the costs.