You'll need to buy a new TV to take advantage of it, or perhaps there will be an option to buy a set-top box.
Newer TVs are soft upgradeable and often even come based on Linux. It really comes to whether the vendor wants it and whether there is memory/processor power spare. One fly in the ointment are the content providers who have been forcing more and more verification technology to protect between the decryption CI+ unit and the display.
Thanks for finding that at high definition. What that is a mind map. The kind of thing that you can do with programs like FreeMind or its closed source, commercial counterparts. Mind maps are an invaluable tool but the only place you would use it directly in a presentation is to show complexity.
Where it does get used, and quite legitimately too is for planning. You can even have it up on a screen while you are doing it.
First although we started playing with Alpha about the same time as everyone else (after the second wave of workstations appeared), it didn't go anywhere near production for some time afterwards. In this time, not a lot happened to the hardware but the O/S and compilers stabilised a lot.
Ok, the standards for enterprise level stuff is quite different and a good deal more expensive whatever chip is on board. They tend to have (multiple) good power supplies, good distribution and excellent cooling.
Funnily enough, the lower level systems also seemed to work quite well for us (we developed on them) and used them as specialised intermediate servers). However we usually had headless workstations for that using X from PCs. In all cases though we were running OpenVMS and not Tru-64. The reasoning was that as our primary function was message/record orientated processing rather than byte streams, and VMS was very good at that.
Your hardware downtime does sound quite alarming, but I don't recall any worse reliability than with other hardware. None of the other big sites that I knew were reporting it either. The only real disadvantage was the Alpha's cost against Sparcs.
That was the sad thing about it - If they had produced an adult version of the OLPC - the things were intended for use in bush type conditions, from the daylight viewable LCD through to the construction of the keyboard and the ease of fixing.
Toughbooks are great but if you are looking for an outdoors machine without the budget of an oil company, i.e. a university doing field research then it can be a problem.
For large values of one, one equals two, for small values of two.