How much is Google spending on non-profit projects per year? Billions of dollars? Wouldn't it be good if the craze that goes on around Android and Chrome could be fully utilized by a global education project instead of these things happening separately? If OLPC can find a way to make it central to the whole Mobile Computing trend to also support full productivity, full educational purposes, real usefulness and not only Angry Birds. That could be very positive couldn't it?

That hardware is basically awesome, it's now just a question of software to make it fully Intel Atom netbook killer. It's nearly half the weight, potentially 50% of the price, runs 3x longer on a battery, may run even twice as much or more with a reflective Pixel Qi screen.

You won't find a sub-5Watt system (including the screen) running Intel Atom or AMD Fusion, so those cannot be compared. Why AMD or Intel don't go lower power, go ask them. the VIA Nano allows for a 4Watt system, which is a bit lower than AMD Geode.

Definitely they should add Android apps support somehow, I think the kids in Peru are going to enjoy Angry Birds.

The $100 has always been target that can only be reached once more than 6 million units are mass manufactured, that was always the original idea. Intel tactics though, it has been proven in official state letters, successfully blocked OLPC from reaching countries like Nigeria, China, India, etc. But even though they "only" sold 2 million laptops to children in some of the poorest places in the world, you can find plenty videos online http://olpc.tv/ , see how the kids and teachers are using those daily, it's a huge success. I mean comon, OLPC may have deeply changed the lives of 2 million families in more or less very poor third world countries. Sure enough, it'd be better they reached 2 billion kids by now, by they I mean OLPC or anyone else in the industry. It's all about lowering cost and lowering power consumption of laptops and also bringing internet everywhere.

I think the OLPC laptops by default all come with a full fedora linux desktop, as you can see in the video, which the kids can easily dual-boot into if they want "advanced mode", with full Gnome desktop.

I also filmed a 14" 2Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 laptop at CES, see here: http://armdevices.net/2011/01/07/nufront-arm-powered-laptops/ In Europe Toshiba has released the best looking ARM Cortex-A9 Tegra2 Powered 10.1" Laptop, it's available for 160 euros for new (sub $200 retail price, consider Europeans pay approx 25% taxes). The only problem with that Toshiba AC-100 is current lack of decent laptop-oriented software, the Android that's loaded on it is not mature enough and Toshiba is very secretive about software update status. That Toshiba AC-100 has been rooted and impressive hackers have loaded Ubuntu on it but it's buggy for now, sound doesn't work yet for example, and it's risky to install, some people have bricked their units doing it. Shuttleworth said at recent Ubuntu conference that the Toshiba AC-100 is his favorite device. Much more may be coming soon in ARM Powered laptop segment. You can follow my site if you want news, or even post your news on it if you find something.

OLPC was founded in 2005 with the "$100 Laptop" idea which Bill Gates, Intel, everyone imediately poo-pooed. Intel's Asus Eee PC Atom platform was a direct reaction to OLPC's hype, Eee was promoted as $199 Laptop miod 2007 but introduced by the end of 2007 as a $399 netbook.

I filmed Mitch Bradley demonstrating Open Firmware as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvxxAeuhPp0

I didn't formulate it "as lesser names", my submitted text was edited.

Direct link to the video interview with Canonical on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfVDJEOtXGk Until the ARMdevices.net server is back up.