Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd Nov 2005 16:24 UTC, submitted by Lunxer
Here is an 8 minute documentary about the recently unveiled 100$ laptop. It shows the laptop in action, and also discusses its aspects with one of the team members, such as the screen, the cheap keyboard, and much more. The video is in Quicktime, and this mirror gives better performance. My take: I am very, very, very impressed. The thought put into the details is just stunning. Every aspect of this machine has a function. Just astonishing.
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Did anyone understand how the screen was going to work?
It's a Dual Mode screen.
It seems like they have "normal" B&W 800x600 mode, but then they have a sort of passive color low res mode.
She seemed to imply that the color screen was based on a reflective "DVD like" material BEHIND the screen that I assume is revealed by the individual pixels of the B&W screen. Sort of like artifacting on the old Apple ]['s.
Did anyone else get that impression?
I do like the design of the system, I thought was quite clever.