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Originally Posted by mogui
For $200, with some swappable batteries, many of us will buy an Eee to use as a reader. Many others will happily hack the Linux on it. The Eee is an exciting development -- if they can really pull it off.
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As an eBook reader the Eee will fail. Most people won't want to do battery management to read books.
Getting off on a tangent here...
IHMO, this whole OLPC, Eee, Foleo, etc. push is solving the wrong problem. The problem is not "building a full featured device that is small", but "building a system that will last at least 1 day without a recharge".
The problem is not which OS to use, which hardware to use, what features to incorporate. Those are the easy problems.
The problem is power - which is the hard problem. Our battery technology today is little different from the first chemical batteries. Yes, we have better chemicals, but they are still chemical and have all the limitations thereof - including short life.
What they should be focusing on is the power problem. Once they have a power source that can run for days,
then features and such will make a difference.
What good is a device if the battery runs down when you need it? What good is a nicely portable device if you have to carry a life support system for it?