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I am married to a teacher and can assure you that even in 'the West' there are kids without personal smartphone and without a single computer/tablet at home. N

by aj3 5y ago

I am married to a teacher and can assure you that even in 'the West' there are kids without personal smartphone and without a single computer/tablet at home. No idea whether heat aspect is worked around in OLPC somehow by carefully selecting materials used or whatever, my point is that making these laptops self-sufficient would indeed be useful (if at all possible).

initramfs 5y ago
Definitely agree. There is a profit incentive to make laptops powerful but there is very little competition at the low end, unfortunately. I solar powered a microcontroller in indoor light just to prove that powering a computer is possible (96mhz is far more capable than even some early 486 PCs that ran Windows) , and not just a calculator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ztj_MDNRcI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ztj_MDNRcI of course, powering a screen would require much more light, but it's not impossible if there was a full system re-development - from low power monochrome displays to light peripherals. Our group hopes to get a terminal to display on an e-ink, which seems doable: https://forum.ei2030.org/t/paperterm-project-definition-and-marketing-materials/146/7 https://forum.ei2030.org/t/paperterm-project-definition-and-...