Arkat PDA

Argentina is present in the prototype of the program One Laptop per Child (OLPC) which aims to ensure that every child has access to a laptop for educational purposes.

Our country already announced to buy a million of these laptops, part (along with Brazil, China, India and others) as a pilot country.

The founder of the Media Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Negroponte, presented in the ministry of eduction in the nation.
These Laptop will use operating system Linux, a decision made after an MIT study which concluded that Linux was the best choice, in spite of the pressures and exaggerated movements that Microsoft attempted to do.

This is an excerpt from the review that Paul Mancini made on his blog, after accessing the presentation.

The device is amazing. The prototype that Negroponte brought last week is much smaller and lighter than we imagined. It is designed for kids, of course. Your keyboard, for example, would be nonfunctional hand like ours. The keys are for little hands and fingers of infants. Its size is similar to a first grade book.

The $ 100 laptop has a 500 MHZ processor, 1 GB Ram Memory, Flash Drive, 4 USB ports, wireless support, monitor Color and Black & White, and Linux OS.

This laptop supports wifi. That is, are ready to connect to the web wirelessly. Moreover, each functioning as a wireless port. No matter if a guy is using it or not, each laptop becomes a provider router connectivity to the machines is about.

Then you do not need cables to connect to the web. But also needs to function. The laptop has devised Negroponte work "to handle" with a handle to which a user must spin. Few minutes are enough to handle a laptop is loaded with enough watts to last all afternoon, for example.

The machines are for kids, not schools. (Now going on that aspect, but before we say something more about batteries) The theme of the full assessment battery is quite obvious for two reasons: Because it would be a limit to the guys who do not have all day to charge them with electricity, and it would increase the cost of each laptop in 3 or $ 4.

via Paul Mancini blog .

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Paul PDA
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