[Sugar-devel] The future of Sugar on XO-1s

[Dave Crossland]

Hi Walter!

On 8 April 2016 at 09:26, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:18 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
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>> Hi
>>
>> On 7 April 2016 at 22:04, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> A layer of Scotch tape remedies the trackpad problem in many cases.
>>>
>> ...
>>>
>> The keyboard is more robust than most think. In PY and NE kids repair
>>> them by putting paper over the buttons under the rubber membrane.
>>>
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>> Where are such hacks documented? :)
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> Perhaps somewhere by OLPC? Or at individual deployments?
>

I started https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/XO-1_Biography to collect these
things in a narrative form :)


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>>> A lot of the people in the global south are going to get access to cheap
>>>> solar electricity, cheap Android computing devices, and some degree of
>>>> cheap network connectivity.
>>>>
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>>> Not until the XO-4 is the power footprint really that we were initially
>>> targeting.
>>>
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>>> ...
>>>>
>>>
>>>> So, another prediction from me that is probably wrong: OLPC will not
>>>> produce another hardware design.
>>>>
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>>> There were rumors circulating, but I have no knowledge one way or
>>> another.
>>>
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>> I can't parse the first line :)
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>
> Sorry I was unclear. The point I was trying to make is that until the
> XO-4, we had not yet achieved the goal of < 5W power consumption. The XO-1
> was a huge step forward in terms of "green" computing, but the XO-4 was the
> machine we aspired to build in 2006-7.
>

Yep. I keep my eyes open for an XO-4 on Ebay, but since there was no G1G1
for them, there don't seem to be any floating around.


> Further, while the phone industry has taken low-power as a serious goal,
> few laptop manufactures have made much progress on this front. Every time I
> refresh my Thinkpad, it seems to be more power hungry rather than less
> power hungry. Something wrong there.
>

I understand that the phone industry has taken low-power as a serious goal
in the last decade because battery capacity hasn't grown as much as they'd
like, and become the limiting factor for the big screens.

-- 
Cheers
Dave
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