<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 01.04.2011, at 18:07, Erik Blankinship wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Samuel Greenfeld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greenfeld@laptop.org">greenfeld@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello all:<br><br>As many of you are aware, work is being done to improve the graphics performance of various XO laptop platforms.<br><br>So in an attempt to improve things further, I looked into optimizing the data Sugar sends to the video subsystem itself.<br>
<br>I think I have made some improvements, and put up some samples of my Sugar interface work at <a href="http://www.greenfeld.org/1April2011/" target="_blank">http://www.greenfeld.org/1April2011/</a> . Feedback is welcome.<br>
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But while I have drastically reduced the amount of bandwidth required to display the Sugar interface, I fear I have significantly increased the amount of power required for optimal rendering.<br><br></blockquote><div><br>
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><div>Yes, power consumption has been one of our greatest concerns as the pixel to semicolon bump causes some serious strain.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The XO tablet's gpu will probably handle this going forward.</div><div><br></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://mediamods.com/sugar/record_ui.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://mediamods.com/sugar/record_ui.html</a> </span> </div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Well, I tried it for Etoys. On a ca. 1968 terminal it's way to slow. But the XO is way more powerful (in particular the 1.5) so this is worth pursuing, IMHO:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://etoys.squeak.org/experimental/Etoys1968.jpg">http://etoys.squeak.org/experimental/Etoys1968.jpg</a></div><br><div>
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