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what is the lowest power usage laptop available?
Can you get a solar powered laptop?
Can you get a solar powered laptop?
low power laptop
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nobody?
You can solar power any laptop if you've got a big enough panel. 
This gets you 40W, which covers netbook territory and some ULV/CULV stuff too (e.g. Asus UL30A comes with a 40W power 'brick'). Add this and you've got even more capacity (for short-ish bursts). I'm not going to attempt to vouch for the weight of it all, however.
PS - The first Atom-based Asus Eee might come close to the lowest-powered netbook. Small screen and no spinning disk to worry about. If you want a proper laptop then ULV/CULV is the way to go (cf. the aforementioned UL30A).
This gets you 40W, which covers netbook territory and some ULV/CULV stuff too (e.g. Asus UL30A comes with a 40W power 'brick'). Add this and you've got even more capacity (for short-ish bursts). I'm not going to attempt to vouch for the weight of it all, however.
PS - The first Atom-based Asus Eee might come close to the lowest-powered netbook. Small screen and no spinning disk to worry about. If you want a proper laptop then ULV/CULV is the way to go (cf. the aforementioned UL30A).
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There's one or two mini laptops still running Intel A110 which have a TDP of 3W. Although VIA did have an Eden system that consumed less than 0.5W total power. Of course, that's not with a screen but still...
You could probably 'charge' any laptop with any solar panel, just through trickle charging.
http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=252
You could probably 'charge' any laptop with any solar panel, just through trickle charging.
http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=252
