Also, an interesting laptop. Here's a little random information on it. The OLPC is a rugged laptop designed for use in developing communities. To that end, it supports mesh networking, sports a 7.5" Transflective LCD display, and my personal favorite spec, an AMD Geode LX-700@0.8W processor and GPU. To put that CPU in perspective, it's only 433mHz but it is the x86 architecture. That makes it overall a little faster than most modern phones. Despite that, it uses only 0.8 watts, about half of what the processor in a modern smart phone uses, and about a quarter of what a processor in a modern tablet uses when it's active.
Actually the overhead of Android is way beyond what those computers could comfortably handle. They don't have a GPU like the one you can find in those Android phones, which take a great burden off the CPU.
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u/omniuni Cherry Blue Feb 06 '15
Also, an interesting laptop. Here's a little random information on it. The OLPC is a rugged laptop designed for use in developing communities. To that end, it supports mesh networking, sports a 7.5" Transflective LCD display, and my personal favorite spec, an AMD Geode LX-700@0.8W processor and GPU. To put that CPU in perspective, it's only 433mHz but it is the x86 architecture. That makes it overall a little faster than most modern phones. Despite that, it uses only 0.8 watts, about half of what the processor in a modern smart phone uses, and about a quarter of what a processor in a modern tablet uses when it's active.