http://www.osnews.com/story/16643/Intel_s_USD_400_Flash-Based_Laptop_Alongside_the_OLPC Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:13:02 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?188855 http://osnews.com/thread?188855 Surely it will come with Windows CE Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbenitezb) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?188876 http://osnews.com/thread?188876 Intel lost out to AMD when they were bidding for CPUs. Now, they've come up with their own version. Intel certainly has the resources and knowledge base to do it. The difference I see is that Intel might be motivated to sell this type of device to anyone rather than just providing it for children in classrooms. I think it would be great. Ultra-portable computers have always had a pretty steep price difference just for their size. Imagine what will happen as volumes increase through these types of programs.

What kills me is that they are implying a $250 price difference was created almost entirely through shipping costs. How would they propose to ship their machines? Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hands) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?188990 http://osnews.com/thread?188990 As title said. I have to be critical about this, we have see where it leads. My guess is nowhere. hehe Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (judgen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?189018 http://osnews.com/thread?189018 whats the point of this $400 non-standart device when new VIA C7 laptop costs $500 in retail? Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stare) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?189044 http://osnews.com/thread?189044 Microsoft...and now Intel. For a project that is meant to *benefit* children. Its gone from being publicly ridiculed to a something to compete with.

If there is a sign that OLPC is already a success. I think its happened.

I suspect very strongly that support this late is not driven by the ideal of making it successful, but "muddy the waters" late in the day. Rather than provide a real viable alternative. That will actually benefit the children. Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cyclops) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?189068 http://osnews.com/thread?189068 How is that "low-price"? I can go out and buy a brand new "real" laptop (example: http://www.pcx.com.ph/showcase/profile.asp?id=1204) for a little more than $500. Sure, it wont have 1Gb of CF but why would you want that? I mean, how much roughness is a laptop designed for *classrooms* going to see?
Also, $400 is an absolute sh1tload of money when you're poor, it's a good chunk of your *yearly* salary. Sure, they'll offer you a loan but is being in debt really what you need when you're already poor?Edited 2006-12-07 05:19 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?189339 http://osnews.com/thread?189339 If it doesn't use a hard drive it will be more rugged than a laptop that crashes its hard drive if it's ever dropped. That was one of the design complexities of the OLPC project and why they used Flash memory instead. Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SamuraiCrow) Comments