either/or

either/or

Posted Dec 15, 2006 20:38 UTC (Fri) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
In reply to: either/or by ldo
Parent article: Playing with the OLPC

Not to talk about how much less efficient their battery is, how much
heavier, how much they lack wireless capability and even if they have
that, how much more electricity these old machines would take.

Also, where one would suddenly get 5 million old laptops into which one
can put the same software (HW drivers) etc to ease maintenance and
maintainability? Each one of these old machines would need to be
"hand crafted". I bet cost of refurbishing would be more much expensive;
laptop spareparts are non-standard and cost a lot. A new battery would
be an absolute must for an old laptop (+ the power supply with a
crank :)).

<sarcastic>
Oh, yes, (richer part of) 3rd world should buy what we don't anymore
want and be thankful for it...
</sarcastic>

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