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Mandriva participates in Intel's Classmate PC projectMandriva participates in Intel's Classmate PC projectPosted Mar 31, 2007 18:21 UTC (Sat) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510)In reply to: Mandriva participates in Intel's Classmate PC project by ofeeley Parent article: Mandriva participates in Intel's Classmate PC project Lighter weight hardware costs money, and the Vaio sure isn't designed for kids to drop it as the OLPC is. The OLPC display is closer to something you'd accept on a PDA than a laptop, and it's accepted that it will come with some dead pixels. Its designer said that the kids it's intended for don't even have window glass in their classrooms and don't care about dead pixels, and of course that is a major factor in manufacturing yield. I doubt Intel's taking economies that severe. I thought lithium had more energy. Bruce
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Mandriva participates in Intel's Classmate PC project Posted Apr 6, 2007 15:10 UTC (Fri) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link] Lithium does indeed have more energy per unit mass than NIMH (about twice as much IIRC, largely because the cell voltage is more than twice as much). So the point presumably is that for similar Wh numbers the OLPC must have a lot more battery mass in it, which explains how the Vaio fits a lot more functionality into the same weight spec.
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