A Closer Look at the $100 Dollar Laptop
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It still seems more fitting to call it the $100 Dollar Laptop, although its price has risen. It is now at $170 - and for that price, there is no hard drive. The key is simplicity; and yet the simplicity itself has its own elegance. Chris Blizzard, the laptop’s chief software engineer, allows a closer look with this video presentation from the BBC:
link: Under the hood of the $100 laptop
It is just a personal idiosyncrasy but the lime green exterior colour always reminds me of Kermit the Frog. I am sure therapy will help… the original colour scheme was orange and yellow. Really. You can look it up on the internet.
Catherine
[tags]$100 dollar laptop, hard drive, chris blizzard, colour, simplicity[/tags]
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Red Hat Person: “Green Is Beautiful for a Laptop” at Catherine’s Flying Hamster Blog
August 28th, 2007
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[...] Some of my Red Hat readers (who are long time friends from another site) took exception to the fact that I compared the green shell colour to Kermit the Frog. A few people have sent videos showing how “green is beautiful for a laptop”. Therefore, it is only fair to show a few of the videos: [...]