[ Reference: Technology Review article on OLPC adoption in Peru, current issue. Several additional articles on their Press page. ]
The display is currently the most expensive component in a laptop, and the most power hungry, and it’s uncomfortable to read when compared with paper. We are going to fix this – we already took the first step with the OLPC screen. The battery is the second most expensive component in the laptop or portable. We propose to massively lower the power consumption of the screen and thus also massively lower the cost of the battery and how long you can run on it before you have re-charge it.
We will do all of this while making the screen lower cost, higher resolution, easier to read and sunlight readable. We’ve already shown the first step of this at One Laptop per Child by creating a display that is 5X the resolution, 1/3 the cost, 1/10th the power consumption. In addition the One Laptop per Child screen is sunlight readable and enables one to the turn the motherboard and CPU off while the screen stays on offering further massive power savings. We have big plans to take this much further.
