> at the time it sounded like the perfect screen (high resolution, low-power, great readability and two modes) My experience was that the OLPC looked awful try

> at the time it sounded like the perfect screen (high resolution, low-power, great readability and two modes) My experience was that the OLPC looked awful trying to display color content -- the effective resolution was pretty low (~800x600), and everything had weird color fringing as a result of the bizarre "subpixel" layout. It looked acceptable in greyscale mode, but, at the time I was using the OLPC (around 2008), software support for this mode was absent.