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Opera Running on the OLPC

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the music-in-the-strangest-of-places dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Opera developers have ported their browser to the $100 laptop. Håkon Wium Lie writes: 'Seeing Opera run on the OLPC for first time was a revelation — no browser has ever been more beautiful. The resolution of the screen is stunning (200dpi) and Opera makes the most of the embedded DejaVu fonts.' Claudio Santambrogio writes: 'Opera runs beautifully on it. The machine is not really the fastest, but Opera's performance is excellent — the browsing experience is beautifully smooth: all sites load fine and quickly, and even complex DHTML pages with heavy animations do not suffer.'"

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  1. screen is stunning? by Toby+The+Economist · · Score: 3, Funny

    I paid 700 quid for my monitor. The entire laptop is 100 USD. How exactly is the screen "stunning", in the slightly breathless tone of the article?

    1. Re:screen is stunning? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Can you then explain why the pictures in TFA shows a colored screen?

      That's African American screen, bigot.

    2. Re:screen is stunning? by h4rm0ny · · Score: 3, Funny


      Quick - somebody post a screenshot!

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  2. Title is misleading! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was expecting to see Opera running on one of the children... :(

  3. Re:overrated? by xiong.chiamiov · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's over-rated because, well, that's a moderation. If I want to mark you down, but you're not really a troll or flamebaiter, I just mod you overrated.

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  4. Re:the real important question by trashbat · · Score: 4, Funny
    can it run flash videos like youtube.
    If so then let's hope they don't start blowing a load of aid money on two-litre bottles of Diet Coke and rolls of Mentos.
  5. I don't think OLPC means what you think it means by Dorceon · · Score: 2, Funny
    Opera Running on the OLPC
    The PC in OLPC does not stand for Personal Computer. If it was
    Opera Running on the One Laptop Per Child
    the problem with this title would be obvious. It's bad form to rearrange other peoples' acronyms, so
    Opera Running on the One-Per-Child Laptop
    is right out. I suggest:
    Opera Running on $100 Laptop
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  6. What I want by StarKruzr · · Score: 2, Funny

    The cutie sitting on the floor with it.

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