posted by dennisn on December 9th, 2008 at 3:01PM
Specs look decent... olpc's ~500MHz cpu just isn't enough. (And/Or firefox is horribly programmed.) Though, in fairness, this was probably an intentional tradeoff for battery life. The Aspire One has the typical "3 hour" rating (read: 1.5 actual hours), while the olpc has at least 8h (of real usage), and maybe 16h of static ebook-reading-type usage.
The olpc, though, has a waay better BIOS--which allows you to do whatever the fuck you want. Including booting off SD cards, or playing pong straight off the bios without booting! :P. Olpc also has awesome wifi and meshing capability. Though it is still too slow, writing to the "solid-state" disk takes too long, and it's crappy tiny rubber keyboard is just useless.
The olpc, though, has a waay better BIOS--which allows you to do whatever the fuck you want. Including booting off SD cards, or playing pong straight off the bios without booting! :P. Olpc also has awesome wifi and meshing capability. Though it is still too slow, writing to the "solid-state" disk takes too long, and it's crappy tiny rubber keyboard is just useless.
