<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Hi Walter!<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 April 2016 at 09:26, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:18 PM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra">Hi</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On 7 April 2016 at 22:04, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><span>On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div></blockquote></span></span><span><div>A layer of Scotch tape remedies the trackpad problem in many cases. </div></span></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>...</div></div></div></div></blockquote><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>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.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Where are such hacks documented? :)</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Perhaps somewhere by OLPC? Or at individual deployments? </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I started <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/XO-1_Biography">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/XO-1_Biography</a> to collect these things in a narrative form :)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>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. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Not until the XO-4 is the power footprint really that we were initially targeting. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></div></blockquote></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>... </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></span></div></div></div></blockquote><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></div></blockquote></span></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>So, another prediction from me that is probably wrong: OLPC will not produce another hardware design. </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>There were rumors circulating, but I have no knowledge one way or another. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I can't parse the first line :) </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>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. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>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.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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. </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Cheers<br>Dave</div>
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