Posts Tagged ‘Laptop’

Online shopping series A: Spare Parts Warehouse

January 23rd, 2008 Gadgets 4 Comments
The mass improvements of Internet technology and virtualization bring us in a stage where we nearly buy/want to buy everything from online. But as the online shopping spree grows so is the online scam and fraud. There are thousands of online shopping sites out there with lowest quality products (that they can’t sell on site), some with zero customer care, much worse some are just crooks/frauds. So they only way to be safe is buying from someone reliable, certified by proper authority. In United States BBB online reliability program is one such scheme, where they scrutinizes online companies to adhere some basic guidelines to make online shopping safer for consumers. Spare Parts Warehouse is a member of BBB online reliability program, which is a fantastic online shopping place for laptop parts such as laptop batteries, hard drives, AC adapters, DVD/CDRWs, LCD displays, etc. Spare Parts Warehouse is a subsidiary service of Dayton, OH based UCR LLC, which has a long illustrated 22 years of service track. Apart from just laptop parts sales, they do have an outstanding Laptop LCD Screens & Laptop Screens repair service, which is well within the reasonable cost. And hey they are an Authorized Laptop Repair…
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Intel pulled the plug from OLPC

January 7th, 2008 Gadgets No Comments
Just a few days ago when OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen announced her departure, optimists were still hopeful that Nicholas Negroponte will turn the things around in no time; after all it all is for a good cause. But just a few days before mass production begin when Intel announced it’s puling the plug on its dealings with Nicholas Negroponte’s brainchild’ things are not looking good at all for OLPC. When Intel joined OLPC’s educational programme last July, the aim was to combine two major attempts at providing low-cost laptops for the sake of delivering global progress. Intel left the partnership end of last week, giving reasons of “impossible to reconcile” differences between the organisations, as well as accusing OLPC of demanding that Intel end its supply of the Classmate PC, which is part of Intel’s World Ahead programme. Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC chairman, said   Intel issued a statement to the press behind our backs while simultaneously asking us to work on a joint statement with them. Intel had not responded to OLPC’s accusations at the time of going to press. Or maybe they have nothing left to say! OLPC said the differences between the two organisations were that  …
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The OLPC future cloudy?

January 3rd, 2008 Gadgets No Comments
The OLPC (One Laptop per Child) project seems to encounter another major setback, as its CTO Mary Lou Jepsen is stepping down to pursue a commercial project based on OLPC technologies. Since the day one this project has proved difficult to get off the ground. Now sudden departure of CTO, might be the end of the Give One Get One scheme which sold the laptop commercially to users in the US. According to OLPC they were very successful in “Give One Get One scheme”, though no independent data available to support this claim. Though now many children have access to the OLPC XO laptops but the success has been modest when compared to the original vision. Since Nov, 2007 OLPC goes on Mass Production of XO laptop, you may consider Lou Jepsen contribution come to an end, but many observer thinks it does raise question marks about the long-term design evolution of the laptop. There may not be such a good future for OLPC in Brazil as in the Brazil “auction”, factors like local production and import taxes are more significant than the educational questions. Things are not being compared on a like-for-like or lifetime usage basis. Many consider OLPC…
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