Gear

OLPC Bares All for Bunnie

Master hacker and DMCA deflater Andrew "Bunnie" Huang decided to go poking around inside OLPC’s X0-1 laptop and found plenty to praise inside.He declares the mechanical design "brilliant," giving the OLPC folks kudos for making the laptop rugged and easy to service. Special props for mounting the motherboard against the LCD, a position that improves […]

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Master hacker and DMCA deflater Andrew "Bunnie" Huang decided to go poking around inside OLPC's X0-1 laptop and found plenty to praise inside.He declares the mechanical design "brilliant," giving the OLPC folks kudos for making the laptop rugged and easy to service. Special props for mounting the motherboard against the LCD, a position that improves durability and cooling efficiency. Conclusion:

It’s a fairly clean-sheet redesign of traditional notebook PC mechanics around the goal of survivability, serviceability, and robustness.

OLPC XO-1 [bunnie:studios]