Nigerians create 8.5 watt PC

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No moving parts

THE NIGERIAN computer industry, which is unfortunately more famous for the distribution of money-making confidence tricks, has developed an 8.5 Watt PC with no moving parts.


The Solo Computer has been developed by the Nigerian Fantsuam Foundation. It uses a 1GB flash drive for storage instead of a spinning hard disk, and an energy-efficient ARM processor.

It does not have any graphics card, nor a colour screen either and runs on a 14.1-inch LCD screen. It is not cheap either. Owning one of these will set you back more than $1200.

But the big idea is that it will work entirely on a solar powered collecting device and provide technology to villages.

The fact it uses solar power means that it needs a low power consumption and 8.5 watts is a bit better than the 180 watts being eaten by the new generation of 'low power consumption' dual chips. There is a picture and more here.