"Certainly there are a lot of hooks from Sugar into the OLPC hardware, because the hardware itself is pretty special. But while I think that the things that OLPC has done with the hardware are necessary for successful deployment, I think that there are compromises that can be made with other hardware in the short term. So [you could get Sugar running on] other laptops and even other computers." ---------- I'm a big fan of good software/hardware interaction, so getting the green & white laptop to play with would be great fun as opposed to porting it to other systems, just to see it all in the flesh as it was designed to be - as long as the unit has a revised keyboard :p
Interesting interview. The customer is not always right, I agree.
At the end of the day I hope some of the technologies explored with this thing drift down to 'common' portables.
...and perhaps the most important: the lack of cook-in-the-sun black colour and/or tacky silver/grey painted shells so common in everyday laptops :p
I would kill to:
1) charge and/or run on the sun, and charge so little and get so much power 2) have legibility of text and whatnot in full sun with transmissive / reflective switchable screen 3) have incredible battery life (!) 4) have good durability from shocks and drops and spills 5) have a far lighter/smaller/ more flexible 'tablet'/notebook machine 6) have in-built collaboration tools 7) extremely low maintenance
...like this thing has. In a few words, this is innovation. Meanwhile the PC industry in general is doing the same old thing as the years roll on.
"In a few words, this is innovation. Meanwhile the PC industry in general is doing the same old thing as the years roll on."
There's a reason for that: Singular OS, Singular control, non-standard Monopoly. Welcome to the world where only one company is legally allowed to "innovate" on your computer.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
tekdroid @ Apr 25th 2008 11:05AM
"Certainly there are a lot of hooks from Sugar into the OLPC hardware, because the hardware itself is pretty special. But while I think that the things that OLPC has done with the hardware are necessary for successful deployment, I think that there are compromises that can be made with other hardware in the short term. So [you could get Sugar running on] other laptops and even other computers."
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I'm a big fan of good software/hardware interaction, so getting the green & white laptop to play with would be great fun as opposed to porting it to other systems, just to see it all in the flesh as it was designed to be - as long as the unit has a revised keyboard :p
Interesting interview. The customer is not always right, I agree.
At the end of the day I hope some of the technologies explored with this thing drift down to 'common' portables.
...and perhaps the most important: the lack of cook-in-the-sun black colour and/or tacky silver/grey painted shells so common in everyday laptops :p
I would kill to:
1) charge and/or run on the sun, and charge so little and get so much power
2) have legibility of text and whatnot in full sun with transmissive / reflective switchable screen
3) have incredible battery life (!)
4) have good durability from shocks and drops and spills
5) have a far lighter/smaller/ more flexible 'tablet'/notebook machine
6) have in-built collaboration tools
7) extremely low maintenance
...like this thing has.
In a few words, this is innovation. Meanwhile the PC industry in general is doing the same old thing as the years roll on.
Andir3.0 @ Apr 25th 2008 11:21AM
"In a few words, this is innovation. Meanwhile the PC industry in general is doing the same old thing as the years roll on."
There's a reason for that: Singular OS, Singular control, non-standard Monopoly. Welcome to the world where only one company is legally allowed to "innovate" on your computer.
johnny5 @ Apr 26th 2008 11:59AM
"Welcome to the world where only one company is legally allowed to "innovate" on your computer."
Apple?