http://www.osnews.com/story/17974/Five_Days_with_the_Classmate_PC_and_Mandriva Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:36:32 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?243139 http://osnews.com/thread?243139 This is going to hurt Intel, who have been doing everything right. They are ahead of game on their CPU's. Their on-board graphics are being pulled out of the dark ages. Hell the support they have given Linux.

...and then they hurt a charity, I wish there was someone I can cheer for still.

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2823501... Edited 2007-05-25 18:32 Fri, 25 May 2007 18:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cyclops) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?243159 http://osnews.com/thread?243159 Well, it remains to be seen what's actually going to happen. I can still see a place for the Classmate PC and the XO to coexist.

The Classmate PC has a faster processor, more memory and a larger hard drive (and can run Windows) but it lacks the mesh, the display, the camera, the human-power generator, and is somewhat more expensive.

They could easily go to different places, with the XO serving more rural and/or poorer areas. (some; I have read the NYT article about computers in US schools).

Now, if Intel IS dumping and directly trying to get people to drop the XO in favor of its quickly-designed Classmate PC; that's bad. And it does seem awfully quickly designed given all the problems with wireless the article mentioned- hard locking whenever you try to connect to the internet? I can't imagine there are that many configurations of ClassmatePC that they would have simply missed that in testing, so they must have been very busy with other things.

I guess we can still cheer on... Trolltech?Edited 2007-05-25 19:47 Fri, 25 May 2007 19:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DigitalAxis) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?243185 http://osnews.com/thread?243185 I feel exactly the same. I was really liking Intel, until they came out with this.
I still won't go AMD/ATI, but I am left with a sour taste in my mouth. Fri, 25 May 2007 21:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous Penguin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?243419 http://osnews.com/thread?243419 I loved the comment "the battery life was pretty good, lasting at least two hours at a time". If that's not irony I don't know what is. I think that fact will hurt this computer way more than the suspicion that Intel is doing this only to hurt AMD or OLPC. Sun, 27 May 2007 11:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tamlin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?243472 http://osnews.com/thread?243472 for an entry student machine imho. They are both full capable workstation after all. Few years ago we had been running desktops with such specs...

Do you remember things like Logo or build in Basic interpreters? Build in an editor, a calculator, a simple hardware to be able comprehended and programmed by a single individual at hardware level?

It's mistake to thing a someone starting with a computer needs even a wimpy 900MHz CPU and 256MB of ram. At those machines cost way too much to be affordable for really rural regions. Sun, 27 May 2007 15:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Radek) Comments