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One Laptop Per Child - Intel vs AMD

Rampant capitalist versus Ivory Tower Academe
By .NETDJ News Desk
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June 10, 2007 03:15 PM EDT
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Intel is working with Taiwan-based Asustek Computer on a counter to One Laptop Per Child's AMD-based currently $175 XO notebooks.

The full-fledged Intel-Asustek PC will start at $199 and go to $299. Other than a low-end Intel chip, the widgets will have a seven- or 10-inch screen, Wi-Fi, a solid-state hard disk and run either XP or Linux.

Asustek will sell the widget into the mass markets in emerging economies but it will carry Intel's Classmate brand and be called the Eee PC for "Easy to Learn, Easy to Work and Easy to Play." Shipments are supposed to start this summer, with Asustek thinking it can move 200,000 this year.

OLPC, which has accused Intel of upstaging it, has been trying to get third world governments to buy its notebooks for their kids.

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Robert Arrowsmith 06/11/07 07:06:26 AM EDT

Are you serious?
Where did you get your story from. The Eee Pc from Asustek has nothing to do with the OLPC laptop. It certainly wont be labelled as the ClassMate. Thats a totally different computer.

The Eee Pc is a pocket size teen/adult wireless computer designed to sell into a techno conscious market and competes more with Palm and other UMPC makers.

The OLPC laptop is a rugged ultra low power machine with high resolution dual mode display. Its rubber keyboard and small physical size makes it almost impractical for adults to use but makes an amazing learning tool for children along with its tailor made 'Sugar' user interface.

Try not to invent stories. Its unprofessional to say the least.
.NET News 06/10/07 02:29:41 PM EDT

Intel is working with Taiwan-based Asustek Computer on a counter to One Laptop Per Child's AMD-based currently $175 XO notebooks. The full-fledged Intel-Asustek PC will start at $199 and go to $299. Other than a low-end Intel chip, the widgets will have a seven- or 10-inch screen, Wi-Fi, a solid-state hard disk and run either XP or Linux.