Permaculture Database

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>]

> > One Laptop Per Child Program
> > http://www.laptopgiving.org
> > http://www.laptop.org
> The OLPC Wiki
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home

http://www.laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/highlights.shtml
"XO unlike any laptop ever built

XO creates its own mesh network out of the box. Each machine is a full-time wireless router. Children in the most remote 
regions of the globe—as well as their teachers and families—will be connected both to one another and to the Internet.

It features a 7.5 inch, 1200×900 pixel, TFT screen and self-refreshing display with higher resolution (200 DPI) than 95 
percent of the laptops on the market today. Two display modes are available: a transmissive, full-color mode, and a 
reflective, high-resolution black and white mode that is sunlight readable. Both consume very little power: the 
transmissive mode consumes one watt—about one seventh of the average LCD power consumption in a laptop; the reflective 
mode consumes a miserly 0.2 watts.

The laptop selectively suspends operation of its CPU, which makes possible even more remarkable power savings. The 
laptop nominally consumes less than two watts—less than one tenth of what a standard laptop consumes—so little that XO 
can be recharged by human power. This is a critical advance for the half-billion children who have no access to 
electricity."