Wonder why there’s so much talk about the olpc laptop?
Because, as these pictures show, it really is suited for e-book reading. And it’s book size, not laptop size.
These pictures (resized here) come from the One Laptop Per Child website, www.laptop.org/download.en_US.html. There are lots more images there.
I can’t resist showing the green tablet again, because it so clearly shows the laptop’s size. The infamous handcrank is clearly visible in the green device, and in other images of the blue (but nowhere in the yellow or orange) indicating that these are from an earlier stage of the device’s development.
And a couple more variations — I don’t know if they’ll make more than one variant. These are labeld concept images. Anyway, the vision is clearer when you see all the images:
Edited to add: The olpc website notes: “The only thing that might be somewhat misleading in the prototype is the display. The display we plan to ship is significantly bigger and of a higher resolution than the one pictured: We will ship at 1200×900 vs. the 800×480 display in the shown in the photo.”
Here’s another photo that clearly demonstrates the size. This image was downloaded from flickr and cropped; it was taken at the unveiling of the working prototypes by Pete Barr-Watson:
By Roger Sperberg, New York Editor for TeleRead
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