And the One Laptop Per Child sponsor is....Sony?

crzyrbl · Post by **crzyrbl** » Fri 12 Jan, 2007 2:22 am

well the heck?!?

http://www.tgdaily.com/picturegalleries ... 111-6.html

why is sony's original controller buttons on the laptop?

necro · Post by **necro** » Fri 12 Jan, 2007 6:27 am

exactly what are these kinds of comps for because those are some terrible specs.

crzyrbl · Post by **crzyrbl** » Fri 12 Jan, 2007 7:48 am

For the children of the third world.

blueskies · Post by **blueskies** » Fri 12 Jan, 2007 8:05 am

Probably so it's something familiar. All those third world kids have ps2's. ?

leofox · Post by **leofox** » Fri 12 Jan, 2007 8:33 am

Symbols like that are beteter to understand for kids that cant read than numbers or letters.

I heard about this thing, apparently it runs on linux, but M$ wanted to make it do Winxp. That would mean that it would need a big ass harddrive (it has flash now ==cheap), more RAM and a faster CPU. Making the 100$ PC about.. 200$? lol

hop · Post by **hop** » Fri 12 Jan, 2007 11:31 am

That's really cool of Sony. There are all kinds of projects like this from universities and such but they never get anything decent together, Sony can and seems willing to do so. Sweet.

If you don't get why the typical Sony console buttons are on it then you must not have noticed the target audience and puzzle me why you're not wondering why the thing is lime green. Of course it's got to do with branding, but that too can only promise to strengthen the third-world economy as long as all business practises are kept at/pushed to the surface (human rights etc).

The stats are really sweet for that price. Really. Just check out the stats for other third-world $100 PC projects. These things will be really nice for schools in those countries.

Good stuff.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Fri 12 Jan, 2007 12:52 pm

Interesting but i did a little searching and am unable to find anything about sony 'officially' supporting this project ... it seems to me like they just made a sony playstation-like controller, as suggested here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Game_controller

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Fri 12 Jan, 2007 1:09 pm

WTF, where are you getting this sony thing? Just cause of the buttons? I'd agree with blueskies, shapes are recognized by all cultures, where letters are not.

They have really improved the specs of the olpc since the last I saw it. Theres a freaking camera in it...Why? And those rabbit ears look like they won't stay on for 5 minutes.

They should had these out schools here. Compared to the costs of books this thing is dirt cheap.

crzyrbl · Post by **crzyrbl** » Sat 13 Jan, 2007 3:40 am

I never heard of sony supporting the OLPC initiative. Do you think sony would stoop low enough to sue them for this if sony wasn't originally involved?

necro · Post by **necro** » Mon 15 Jan, 2007 8:02 am

what do you mean?

anykey · Post by **anykey** » Mon 15 Jan, 2007 4:19 pm

retarded.

necro · Post by **necro** » Mon 15 Jan, 2007 4:51 pm

how, who, when, where, what is retarded?

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Mon 15 Jan, 2007 7:10 pm

necro wrote:how, who, when, where, what is retarded?

I'll go with "just because, you, since you were born, whichever New England state you live in, and, again, you.

He's referring to the suing.

anykey · Post by **anykey** » Tue 16 Jan, 2007 1:04 am

threefingeredguy: psha!