April 28, 2007
11:28 p.m.
kirby urner wrote:
I'm not surprised the hardware'll be Windows-capable
Funny thing, that. The *old* hardware was also Windows-capable; it's why the SD-card slot was put in. It seems the news being reported are "it could run Windows before, but it'll be less sluggish now," and I'm not sure why people are getting riled up about it. The machines won't ship Windows by default, and no core OLPC dev effort is really going towards it.
as the low price of $179.99 derives from using standard mass market laptop designs already in circulation
Not sure what you're talking about here; we didn't move to using _any_ "standard mass market designs" by implementing the hardware upgrade. -- Ivan Krstić <krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D