Wednesday, January 3, 2007

What Should Brazilian Wwx Look Like

My impressions of the OLPC prototype BTest-1 Squeak

the same way that Santa Claus came forward , the Kings brought me "B1 prototype" of the OLPC .


We must remember that the OLPC project is not a technology project, but is an educational project. Different decisions were taken, were always considering that the goal is to make a cheap computer, portable, strong and efficient to be used by children to improve their education, where it may be difficult to get energy for the machines.

To quickly explain that it is a OLPC, we can say it is a notebook "small" but it is sufficiently "strong" to achieve a major impact on educational processes. Small


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  • small. It is a computer intended for use by children.

    • is green!

    • Rounded corners handles for carrying

    • has a joystick

    • The keyboard is rubber, so that less dirt and support some water.

    • antennas, when folded, protect the connectors.

    • Unable to open the computer without opening the antennas. This means that, by design of the hardware, everyone will always have the antenna raised ... maximizing the possibility of the P2P network works.

  • Small in Size:

    • weighs less than 1.5Kg

    • the display measures 7.5 "

    • the keys are for the size of the fingers of the boys

  • Shortly
  • Consumption:

    • One of the slogans of the design is: "More battery == more useful."

    • Consumption is, roughly, 1 / 10 the consumption of a notebook "normal."

    • No moving parts.

      Display
    • low lighting area.

    • in the hardware design that allows the use of display and wireless card to the processor suspended.

  • Barata.

    • The goal is that each unit can be sold at 100USD.

    • The price achieved up to now is 130USD.

  • Small in Capacity:

    • Compared to commercial notebooks sold today are small in capacity. Although we must remember that the objective is that each unit cost only 100USD (a cost far less to that of the current notebooks).

    • We must also bear in mind that maximized energy savings and was not considered putting a quadruple-mega-super-cpu need a nuclear reactor to run.


Powerful:

  • Dual Screen Color / Black & White, with resolution of 1200x900 (200dpi).

    • The screen may be from a very low-power mode (black and white, with the backlight off) to a very comfortable (Color, with full illumination).

    • The display can run on the processor suspended. Permitting, while the guy is just reading, saving energy.

    • The display, in black and white mode without the light, has good visibility even in sunlight.

  • P2P wireless network capacity.

    • The wireless card can route packets to the processor mesh even suspended.

    • Multimedia 2 speakers included.

    • 1 microphone

      Webcam
    • Everything you need to do video conferencing.

  • Extensible

    • 3 USB

    • 1 Card Reader SD-Card.

    • 1 headphone jack.

    • 1 microphone jack (which also can be used as a port for connection of sensors flights).

  • eBook mode. Display is folded over the keyboard.

    • Comfortable to wear as a book.

    • Comfortable to play.

    • Robusta has no moving parts. MAKES NO NOISE!

    • type connectors are strong as possible.

    • The keyboard is rubber.

    • is going to break 500, the 800-odd units B1 that were made for testing.


All features: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specification

And some photos:








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