Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Mar 2009 16:43 UTC
Earlier this month, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte open sourced the hardware for the OLPC device, inviting manufacturers to use the technology developed for the device in their own laptops, and of course to build OLPCs themselves. Negroponte also believes the OLPC project can help make netbooks better. ZDNet talked to IDC, and they don't think large OEMs will make use of OLPC's offering.
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Regarding 1) though...they do have few ideas that might prove useful, for example their battery tech which is supposedly marginally worse (energy density wise) than current Li-Ion but much safer. Also, they use a novel way to put to sleep even gfx controller when the only thing that's displayed is a static image (though that might fall under 3)...)
And on a more general note...I believe performance comparable to the XO-1 might be enough, if the machine has thouroughly thought out software on it (if you think about it...upcoming ARM netbooks aren't really that much faster than the XO probably, gaining most from video decoding hardware). BTW, that's why I don't understand software side of OLPC...why they didn't create something based on Gnustep & Webkit (it should fly in comparison to their Python, GTK & Gecko stack...), for example?
Most people around me look only at the price when buying a laptop anyway...