Author: Tom Sykes Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] '$100 laptop' to sell to public
John Cooper wrote: > I'm sure they'll go on sale here soon. $183 each is great value but you
> have to buy one to send to a 3rd world country, so even $366 or £200 is
> still pretty good. I've got the 5W Koolu.com mini pc which uses the same
> chip and even dual boot in to the OLPC interface, $300 direct from Koolu
> or £250 from me (the VAT and delivery add a fair bit).
>
> John.
>
Out of interest, does that Koolu thing have the processing power to
decode DVB MPEG2 streams? I've used a 1Ghz pentium3 before and it
utilised less than 20% for the decoding process. Looks like it would
make a great linux/freeview PVR.
