Arkat PDA

Argentina is presented 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 it would buy a million of these laptops, participates (along with Brazil, China, India and others) as a pilot country.

The founder of the Media Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Negroponte, made a presentation to the ministry of education of the nation.
These Laptop use it as the Linux operating system, a decision taken after an MIT study which concluded that Linux was the best alternative, 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 fingers and small hands of children. Its size is similar to a grade book.

The $ 100 laptop has a 500 MHZ processor, 1 GB of RAM, Flash Drive, 4 USB ports, WiFi support, monitor and Black & White Color and Linux Operating System.

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

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 the 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 go on this point, but before we say anything more about batteries) The issue of full assessment batteries is quite obvious for two reasons: Because it would be a limit to the guys who do not have electricity all day to load, 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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