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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. Re:screen is stunning? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Technology moves on....

    I paid over EUR1600 for my LCD monitor, back in the day.

    200DPI is very high resolution for a monitor, 2/3rds that of the 300 DPI considered acceptable for print. Add in subpixel rendering, and it means the screen should near enough be clear enough to read comfortably. Due to windoze brain-damage, lots of computer users still think in resolution-dependent pixel sizes.

    But on a monitor, a font that is 10 points high (a real-world unit) should be the same height on a 640x480 display and a 2048x1560 one. It should just be far clearer on the latter.

  2. Re:screen is stunning? by Toby+The+Economist · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If 200dpi is so good, how come regular LCD monitors are *not* 200 dpi, when a 100 USD *entire laptop* can have such a screen?

  3. Most important image ;) by Nachtwind · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://people.opera.com/howcome/2006/olpc/img/SH10 6875-m.JPG Yes, that thing can display slashdot. Just what the third world needs, more geeks!

  4. Re:I still want one by WillAdams · · Score: 4, Interesting

    An interesting thought here is how useful it might be as an accessory to a normal desktop or laptop?

    It'll certainly make a much nicer ebook reader than most which are already available.

    I'm surprised that companies like vTech and Leapster haven't looked into licensing these.

    William

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    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.