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Image from the OLPC website

The One Laptop Per Child Foundation have been around for a while (and a very worthy case it is too) however it looks like kids everywhere (the US - there is nowhere else is there) may be finding one of the green and white, MIT Media Labratory developed, kid-friendly, wind-up laptops under the tree this year according to Reuters. and at US$350-$525 I think some laptop and game console manufactures may be looking over their shoulders to get the license plate of the truck that hit them.

The wind-up laptop has some interesting specks too. An OS based on Red Hat’s Fedora Core 6 and lots of open source technology and nary a panoramic view or fruit in sight (software wise).

Image from the OLPC web site.

Posters with this slogan have been blazoned across San Francisco since Steve Jobs made the big announcement on Tuesday, January 10, at 9 a.m. PST that Apple were shipping, as of this date, the new “iMac® featuring Mac OS® X running on the new Intel® Core™ Duo processor”. On this occasion I was lucky enough to be sitting, with the faithful, in the audience at Macworld (all be it in the spill-out room) with thanks to a scholarship received from the Apple University Consortium (AUC www.auc.edu.au). So what is an Intel chip doing in a Mac? Without getting too technical Apple were having a hard time making any new gains in computing speed or power with the chips they were previously using, so they made a strategic decision (which was announced twelve or so moths ago) to move to Intel based chips which are more commonly associated with the Windows platform. Read the rest of this entry »