Comments on: Pixel Qi Out to Bring Principles of Inexpensive Laptop Design to Consumer Market: Former One Laptop CTO Mary Lou Jepsen On Her New Startup

By: morgana

morgana — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:19:27 +0000

Ms. Jepsen,

I was wondering when would the public be able to buy your laptops.

Thanks,

Morgana

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Le XO deuxième génération est un lecteur de ebooks | OLPC France — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:49:23 +0000

[...] Le double-écran tactile a été conçu par Pixel Qi, la compagnie de conception de matériel fondée par l’ancienne directrice technique Mary Lou Jepsen. [...]

By: Bob Pianka

Bob Pianka — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:23:40 +0000

This is great! Not more Ghz and bigger OS, design what we need and bring the price down. I agree we don’t need to get to $ 100 as a primary goal.

Let’s focus on the sunlight readability (I live in Florida and nothing works in direct sunlight).

Boot up times under 15 seconds (my old Palm was almost instant on and constantly amazed me).

Super long battery life (and I don’t mean 3 or 4 hours)how about 6 hours.

You do this and not only will you be my personal hero, but you will sell millions of these. Heck, I’d probably buy them and give them as gifts.

Keep up the good work!

By: Bob Raiano

Bob Raiano — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:09:05 +0000

This is an idea that is so long overdue. As a home computer network configurator, I have seen many times what the high cost of computing can do to limit the adoption of technology applications within the home environment. It is much easier to sell notebook products into businesses because they can swallow the high cost of computing a little easier during good times. Expensive computing platforms are preventing people from bringing the technolgy from the corporate office into the home.

By: Nick Alcock

Nick Alcock — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:26:39 +0000

Ramon, that’s crazy. Why wouldn’t some *big* company buy MaryLou’s outfit, sell huge numbers of really cool low-power laptops and eat their competitor’s lunch? Profit matters more than conspiracy to most of these guys.

(btw, there are pretty fundamental reasons why, absent very compact and cheap nuclear fusion, a car that runs on water is energetically impossible. Even then it’s unlikely: would *you* want a multibillion-degree plasma under the hood? Cars that run on batteries, now *those* are practical.)

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Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:02:41 +0000

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By: Michael McNeil

Michael McNeil — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:32:04 +0000

Great stuff.

All you really need in a bare bones lap top is an enlarged Blackberry isn’t it?

A motherboard, chip, memory screen and battery.

Is a graphics card needed?
No.

Is a hard drive needed?
No, nor a sound card. Maybe not even a separate OS?

How about the owners supplying their own peripherals such as the keyboard? I hate laptop keyboards. That’s the worst thing about them.

Well done, that maaaah.. errr.. woman.
More please!

By: Ramon Gandia

Ramon Gandia — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:52:39 +0000

It will be like the man that invented the 100 mpg
carburator, or the car that runs on water …
some *big* company will buy MaryLou’s outfit and
submerge the inventions, and we will see nothing
this year.

By: Stefan Gustavson

Stefan Gustavson — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:26:57 +0000

Finally someone decided to take the path less travelled and design for usability, not for raw horsepower. I have been longing for a low power, less-than-stellar performance laptop that doesn’t need recharging every couple of hours and has a screen I can read in sunlight. MLJ, if you pull this off (as I have no doubt you will), you will be my hero!

As a side note, I don’t think that $100 price tag needs to be a primary goal. If there was someting like an adult-sized XO running a standard Linux distro I would gladly buy it even for $500.