[sugar] Re: [oats-sig] OLPC and AT

[Jonathan Chetwynd]

well it's at least worth noting that the NintendoDS which is in a  
similar price bracket does have a touchscreen, that presumably isnt  
fragile or expensive.
iirc the Zaurus also has one, though the starting price is higher, it  
does run a pretty complete version of linus on a fabulous 640x480  
screen.

regards

Jonathan Chetwynd



On 27 Nov 2006, at 18:32, Stone Mirror (the Great and Terrible) [? 
??????] wrote:

On 11/24/06 6:08 AM, "Jonathan Chetwynd" <j.chetwynd at btinternet.com>  
wrote:

> It seems that a touchscreen has been rejected by OLPC, though this
> isn't certain.

I can't speak to the definitive status of touchscreens on OLPC hardware
(although there isn't one on the latest incarnation, or if there is,  
that's
a surprise to me). I _can_ say that touchscreen technology is both  
expensive
and fragile, attributes which make it unattractive for a device with  
OLPC's
goals...

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David "Lefty" Schlesinger