<incom> Two Laptops Per Child?

[Ralf Bendrath]

TWO LAPTOPS PER CHILD?
Reported by WIRED CAMPUS (Chronicle of Higher Education)
October 2, 2006

"After Nicholas Negroponte unveiled a prototype of his One Laptop Per 
Child project's $100 computer (The Chronicle, November 25, 2005), 
officials with Intel were quick to dismiss the device as a none-too-useful 
novelty item. Mr. Negroponte played down the criticism as a case of sour 
grapes: He had, after all, chosen to line his laptops with processors from 
Advanced Micro Devices, one of Intel's competitors.

But now Intel has stepped forward with the Classmate PC, its own challenge 
to the One Laptop Per Child model. Like the OLPC laptop, the Classmate PC 
has flash memory instead of a hard drive. But while Mr. Negroponte's 
machine runs Linux and comes with batteries that are recharged by a crank, 
Intel's computer runs Windows XP and has a standard lithium ion battery. 
The Classmate PC, which will be marketed to developing nations, will cost 
between $220 and $300 -- making it a great choice for "the poor and 
destitute with more discriminating tastes," according to Gizmodo. --Brock 
Read"
[http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1609]


GIZMODO: Classmate PC: Intel's "Sub-$400" Laptop

"This week Intel announced "Classmate PC" - a budget computer for emerging 
markets (translation: for the poor and destitute with more discriminating 
tastes than the MIT OLPC model). The laptop features the Celeron "eduwise" 
processor with 915GMS chipset, 7-inch WVXGA (800x600) screen, 256MB DDR2 
SO-DIMM memory and 1gb of flash memory for storage. The system will run 
Windows XP and have a standard Lithium Ion battery. The "sub-$400" 
packaging is not as impressive as reality: these notebooks will range 
$220-$300, depending on foreign taxes. Nothing like a little philanthropic 
competition. – Mark Wilson"
[http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/announcements/classmate-pc-intels-sub400-lap
top-204400.php]