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Old 12-28-2007, 11:11 AM   #1
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a few weeks ago I go a OLPC XO laptop in the mail, the One Laptop Per Child computer for devolping countries to use in school, they did a fund raiser by making them avalible to the public by a donation to the compeny.
Anyway, seeing as how this is a online forum about efficentcy, I thougth it fitting to bring this up, I've had a chance to plug it in to the kill-a-watt meter, it draws 20 watts for two hours to full charge the battery from 98% discharge, and once the battery is charge it draws 6-7 watts thru the charger to keep it running with a program running, and If you are outside, or in a well lit room you can turn the backlight off and the moniter goes to black and grey, drawing about 1 watt less.
As far as a laptop goes, this is very basic, web browser, word prosessing program, paint program, some games, in theory it can be used for music, video, photos, but I have not found an easy way to do these things.
It only has 1 gig of storage and 250mb of ram, and the only time so far that I had a problem with that was when loading a 500mb PDF file, it spent 20 minutes trying to load it, but never finished.
really, the only complante I have about it is the size of the key board, I have large finters, and the key board is 7 3/4" acrose, of course it was designed for kids, but it sounds like a large number of these were sold to adults, my other complante is the instructions for how to connect to a wireless network are online, and it's not obviuse as to how it works.
I figure at some point I'll get tired of the lack of avalible programs, and get something like the Asus Eee.
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