Green Personal Computing
From P2P Foundation
This section covers a recent trend observed among some mass market devices oriented towards cost and energy efficiency. It may or may not be a viable and durable trend, yet these devices seem to get more and more present
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Cost/energy/feature-efficient computers
While a large portion of the mass market computing is increasing hardware needs and multimedia performance, some devices tend to focus on usability, simplicity, robustness and/or efficiency.
Their user interfaces radically diverge from traditional ones (such as the OLPC's Sugar Graphical User Interface, aimed at social interaction, or Everex's gOS aimed at web software).
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Real world products and devices
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Very low power consumption devices
These devices consume less than 10W, are mostly fanless (noiseless)
* Zonbu's mini: 99$ or subscription-based, comes with web storage services (Amazon S3) * French ISP's Easy Gate * French Linutop * Koolu's "Works Everywhere" Appliance, priced at 299$ and shipped with Ubuntu * The world's lowest cost thin client? -- 85$ * fit PC, 295$ 3-5 W and the size of a papersheet (see specs for more details)
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Light, low cost laptops
* Asus' eeepc, ultra light laptop under 300$ * HP Mini-note, HP's answear to the eeepc, around 500$ * Everex's eeepc competitor * Sear's sub300$ laptop, shipped with commercial Linspire Linux distribution * The VIA OpenBook, with Open Hardware Design (CAD files published under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License)
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Light desktops and laptops
* Wallmart began selling Everex's GPC, which is a full featured, Linux-powered destkop computer priced at 199$ * Small form factor computers vendor Shuttle announced a sub 200$ desktop dubbed KPC Linux PC
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High-end, multimedia oriented
* Splitted Destkop Systems: Splitted-Desktop Systems is designing low power, high efficiency set-top boxes which support HD TV, Voice Over IP and Full Internet
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Non-profit initiatives
* OLPC, laptop.org * Pixel Qi aims to produce an even cheaper OLPC
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Resources
* Shuttle's $200 Linux PC Part of a Trend? on SlashDot * Other Everex devices * Greener Gadgets conference
