Errr.. so Africa you mean the tribe there got power points meh?
Then how they charge their laptop leh? Solar power?
Then ah.. the laptop got wireless... but in the first place the
tribe/village got WLAN network meh??!!
And instead of giving them laptops, why not do it the tested and
proven way - ie through proper schools and curriculum? In the first
place, the kids will know how to use the laptop meh? And if they
are being taught by people to use the laptop.. why can't the same
people teach the curriculum instead of teaching them how to use the
laptop only? I think for USD 199, you can hire like quite a few
teachers in africa which will benefit more children, rather than
paying for ONE lousy laptop?
Well, if you read the site, you would have gotten the answers.
But just for your benefit, here are the answers to your
questions.
Questions on charging:
"It will also tolerate alternate power-charging sources, such as
car batteries."
Besides normal charging can use this but I think they did
explore the use of Solar Energy for this laptop.
Questions on network:
Its for all the kids to have acess to each other's laptop in
class.
By the way, thanks to this OLPC project, we are having all these
nice classy small UMPC.
