<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Gordan Bobic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gordan@bobich.net">gordan@bobich.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 08/29/2011 05:45 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:<br>
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On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Gordan Bobic<<a href="mailto:gordan@bobich.net" target="_blank">gordan@bobich.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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The key point isn't the cost, though. The point is that an ARM laptop<br>
can be made thinner, lighter and with much, much better battery life<br>
than an equivalent x86 one.<br>
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people who've opened up toshiba AC100s have found them to be mostly<br>
full of air.<br>
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Having two of these and having opened one of them up many times, I can assure you this is not the case </blockquote><div><br> ah - it's good to have some info from someone who's _actually_ done this, rather than just repeating hearsay.<br>
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9in: the OLPC XO 1.75 hardware team budgeted i believe 1 watt or less (!)<br>
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I'm not sure that is achievable with a TFT screen, even if it is LED backlit.<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><br> 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... :)<br>
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