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Better Intel chipset
The problem Intel really has is this: they don't have a chip set that can compete with the Geode -- i.e. low power, fast, low cost. Rather than shoot their mouths off, what Intel can do -- to be useful to themselves, their stockholders, and the world in general -- is to develop a chipset that is better than the Geode and drops in its place. Apparently the OLPC folks had to upgrade to a better Geode, so you know that they have issues. Ditto for Microsoft -- develop an operating system that works in the OLPC machine -- as it is now, with tiny memory and not so fast ... and sell it for $3.00. If it's better, the people will buy it. As for the bone-headed saleswoman who dissed the OLPC to a friend of Negreponte's -- I hope her resume is in order. In reply to: "OLPC fires back at Intel, children learn nothing"

January 9, 2008

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Tres cool. Will go to their homepage and poke around. Have been fiddling with OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) as an early adopter ( Give One Get One (G1G1) program) but this bug thing is really interesting in a similar way, especially if the price is right. wvbailey In reply to: "Bug Labs: Build your own dream gadget"

January 9, 2008

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I agree -- battery door is hard to open
This was quite a surprise when I first encountered the camera in a store, and I actually put it back on the shelf because of it. After reading reviews here and revisiting the camera I decided to live with this flaw. Also, we download our pictures to our computer with a PCMCIA adapter so we open the battery case (it contains the SD card as well) more often than we'd like in order to get at the SD card. (This is not true for our older Canon A520; it has an extra door for the card; but maybe Canon has had issues with folks taking out the card when the power is on and causing damage . . .) In reply to: "Amazing camera"

July 28, 2007

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