__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Tuesday 06 June 2006 21:00 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:05:31 +0100
> <5991595.y2MH4y7YZt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> __/ [ thad01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Tuesday 06 June 2006 19:01 \__
>>
>>> me@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>
>>>> is it possible to make my own OLPC laptop?
>>>>
>>>> Buy a reg laptop but strip all the fat off it and make
>>>> it efficient?
>>>
>>> My old Sony Picturebook comes close except it sucks batteries like
>>> a penguin slurps down herring.
>>
>> You will be better off with battery extenders. Personally,
>> I ditched my laptop [1] and settled down with my Palm
>> PDA+foldable keyboard. It is /far/ more energy-efficient
>> and it also fits in your shirt's pocket (keyboard
>> too). You can pull it out for 5 seconds, jot something
>> down while walking, and bury it back in the pocket.
>> No tablet or laptop can replace that.
>>
>> [1] http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2004/12/30/laptop-redundancy/
>
> OK, dumb question. Does it run Linux yet? :-)
Only in the labs [1].
> Hard to beat that form factor, though.
Aye. *smile* I really want to try the Nokia 770 (similar size, just twice as
big as the Tungsten T, and no keyboard), but their only PIM application [2]
is too buggy and I can't quite get the Palm convertors to serve me right
(see my exchange of words with 'asj' in "Open Office, Not Google..."). There
appears to be an inititive for good and native (in-house?) PIM in for the
Nokia 770 [3], so I'll wait.
The bright colourful display tells me that battery life would typically be
poor, without having an ability to tweak this positively. It's being
pragmatic that surpasses flash, at least when it comes to portable devices.
[1]
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/8514/access-linux-platform-shown-at-linuxworld/
[2] http://nokia770.com/254
[3] http://tech.inhelsinki.nl/2006-06-06/
Best wishes,
Roy
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