Saving Energy On A Zonbu Laptop
The maker of the world’s smallest desktop PC, Zonbu, announced a new laptop. Zonbu’s new notebook has an average power use of 15-Watts, an energy efficiency achievement that prompted the EPEAT silver rating.
On the subtle side, the notebook uses recycled plastics and less hazardous materials than other laptops. Zonbu also offers a free recycling/take back program for when you decide to chuck the computer, but there’s ample time before that will happen. The Zonbu notebook is intended to be very user-friendly. They run on its own OS software that is safe from Windows viruses. You can order one now with the beta version of the Zonbu software or you can wait for the final version to become available early next year. Cost for one starts affordably at $279.
Read more from PC Magazine about its specifications.
http://ecotality.com/life/2007/12/01/saving-energy-on-a-zonbu-laptop/
http://ecotality.com/life/2007/11/17/one-laptop-per-child-buy-one-donate-one-now-open-for-business/
One Laptop Per Child: Buy One, Donate One now open for business
Consider this: most of the 2,000,000,000 children in the developing world get little to no education. This pretty well socks them into a life of hunger, poverty, and struggle. American schools pay an average of $7,500 per educated student; developing countries pay out as little as $19 each.Solving this problem is like fighting a giant, multi-headed hydra of politics, international policy, history, and business. It takes an ambitious person with big ideas to even think about taking it on.
Nicholas Negroponte is one such an ambitious person and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is his big idea.
OLPC is a simple enough concept- put a laptop in the hands of every child on the planet. It has spent the last few years designing, tweaking, and producing a low cost, Linux driven laptop that can be powered by a hand crank or charged up through a plug. The laptops have wireless capabilities and automatically connect and network to other laptops in the area. They are also energy sippers; the screens using 1/7 the energy as those found on conventional laptops.
The OLPC just went on sale for a limited time- for $399 you actually get two laptops- one for yourself and one that is donated to some kid in the developing world. The upside to this is that $200 of the purchase price is tax deductible. The sale ends on November 26, so hurry over and get yours before the clock runs out.
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