OLPC

Joshua Zeidner jjzeidner at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 21:10:38 MST 2008


 I believe it is still a SSD.  Its appealing to me to do little things
like skype, email, etc.  Its really small and portable.  The cheapest
one is ~$300.

  -jmz


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:54 PM,  <fouldragon at aol.com> wrote:
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>  Is it still a SSD?
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>  Honestly, I'd be willing to take the performance hit and use a
>  bargain-priced 32Gb CF card as hard disc.  I really wish I could
>  justify an EEE.  My old IBM 385XD finally bit the dust, and so I could
>  use a laptop... the EEE offers a well-integrated, almost Mac-like in
>  that sense, package, without being more horsepower than I really need
>  to run Firefox and a SSH client.
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>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com>
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> To: mmarch at gmail.com; Main PLUG discussion list
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> Sent: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 1:09 pm
>  Subject: Re: OLPC
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>   ah, so you get more HD with the Linux version?
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>   despite this I still think the factors I cite are valid.
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>   -jmz
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>  On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Michael March <mmarch at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
>  > The new Linux based 9 inch eee has a 20GB hd while the XP version has
>  a 12GB
>  hd.
>  >
>  >  Pretty cool in my eyes.
>  >
>  >  --
>  >  <march>
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>  >
>  >  -----Original Message-----
>  >  From: "Joshua Zeidner" <jjzeidner at gmail.com>
>  >
>  >  Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:52:53
>  >  To:"Main PLUG discussion list"
>  <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>  >  Subject: Re: OLPC
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>  >
>  >   A similar thing with eeePC.  Asus offers no difference in price if
>  >  you run Windows.  I think M$ sees this as a major threat to their
>  >  market share and are willing to do whatever it takes to stop Linux
>  >  users from being created.  You can be sure the high costs you are
>  used
>  >  to will be amortized over a longer period and embedded in difficult
>  >  structures.
>  >
>  >   On the positive side, this means you stand to have M$ eating out of
>  >  your hand if you get in the low-cost laptop market.
>  >
>  >   I consider it to be quite unscrupulous of the OLPC team to run
>  >  programs like G1G1 and then sell out to M$.  No wonder the OLPC
>  >  president resigned.
>  >
>  >   -jmz
>  >
>  >
>  >  On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Mike Garfias <mike at garfias.org>
>  wrote:
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>  http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/23/olpc-scrap-linux-windows
>  >  >
>  >  >  Looks like they're going to ditch linux and run windows.
>  >  >
>  >  >  Ugh.
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