SanDisk announced that they are providing the flash memory for the Intel Classmate PC which is going to be released in larger quantities by the end of this year, in cooperation with the One Laptop Per Child organization. SanDisk thus might provide the markets best solution for low cost Flash memory storage to replace hard drives in low cost and low power laptops.
This is a nice looking compact ultra low voltage laptop by Asus. In a certain way this will be a competitor to the Intel Classmate educationnal laptop. This one is using the VIA ultra low voltage processor to use as little as 3.5 watts in use.
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NEC has a new technology to improve the thin client virtual PC system enabling dedicated multimedia decoding for Mpeg1, Mpeg2 and WMV on the thin client side. For now their solution costs 350$ for the thin client though they also need expensive virtual server machine. When this type of system will function with cheap desktop PC working as the host on the local network, and when it will cost 100$, this will be a great way to build lots of computers sharing centralized processing ressources. And maybe in the future the centralized processing will be located on the Internet on somekind of very powerfull grid systems, once the bandwidth will be 100mbit/s both ways with very low latency, this will become possible for all.
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Pepper Computer has ported their flavour of Fedora Core based Linux OS onto the OLPC, here showing some impressive features like 480×360 resolution DivX video playback, eBook mode, fully working Firefox browser with flash, all those features that are perfectly working on the 100$ Laptop hardware:
A music synthesiser software running on two OLPC XO B1 laptops, demonstrated by Michail Bletsas, OLPC Chief Connectivity Officer at the Analog Devices meating room:
A demonstration of the OLPC outdoor, some software and Michail Bletsas, Chief Connectivity Officer for the OLPC at MIT, explaining how the Mesh Wi-Fi is going to work on the 100$ Laptop: