OLPC upgrades

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Mitch Bradley <wmb at laptop.org> writes:

> [...]  It's also worth pointing out that the new low-power x86
> processors, Atom being the poster child, are still stuck with
> power-hungry support chips - memory and display controllers.  That
> might change "soon", but for now it's still the case.  [...]

According to the ACPI battery gauges under Fedora 10, my Fujitsu U820
UMPC (Atom Z530, Poulsbo GMA500 MCH/graphics) takes around 6W *total*
during light webby operations.

- FChE