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OLPC’s ARM-based tablet, laptop can run on solar power alone

Modern computers aren’t just a lot faster than the PCs you probably used ten or fifteen years ago — they also use a lot less power. But most computers designed to run desktop operating systems still use enough energy that they can’t, say, run directly off the power generated by a small solar panel. But OLPC is demonstrating that its…

January 19th, 2012, 4:30 pm by Brad Linder | 10 Comments

Pixel Qi suggests low power tablets could be powered by 1W solar panels

Pixel Qi’s display technology allows you to seriously reduce power consumption when you cut off the backlight and use a tablet or notebook in high contrast, black and white mode. So while a 10 inch Pixel Qi screen uses around 2.5W of power in full color mode, it uses closer to 0.5W in black and white mode. ARMDevices spoke with…

June 3rd, 2011, 2:00 pm by Brad Linder | 10 Comments

iUnika netbooks are dirt cheap, solar powered

Spanish electronics company iUnika is showing four new netbooks including several solar powered models. That’s right. Netbooks with an actual, honest-to-goodness feature that sets them apart from the hundreds of other mini-laptops flooding the market right now. The laptops aren’t exactly top of the line as far as netbooks go. They sport 400MHz MIPS processors, 7 inch, 800 x 480…

May 14th, 2009, 5:54 pm by Brad Linder | 17 Comments