[Arm-netbook] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011

[Gordan Bobic]

On 08/29/2011 10:25 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

>           9in: the OLPC XO 1.75 hardware team budgeted i believe 1 watt
>         or less (!)
>
>
>     I'm not sure that is achievable with a TFT screen, even if it is LED
>     backlit.
>
>
>   yeah i couldn't quite understand what they're up to, here, but yes
> they quoted under 2 watts for the whole system.  maybe they did
> something crazed like run the backlight at half mast... :)

Or gone with PixelQi screens, but that is likely to pretty much doublt 
the cost of the machine. PixelQi has some _amazing_ power characteristics.

Gordan