RSSIntel Joins '$100 Laptop' Project
By the Betanews Staff | Published July 13, 2007, 11:55 AM
Despite previous bad blood between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child program, which opted to include AMD processors in the low-cost computer for developing nations, the leading chip manufacturer will join the non-profit's board of directors and help fund the initiative.
After OLPC selected AMD, Intel began building its own low-cost laptop for schoolchildren, which it called Classmate PC. The competition has led to problems, as some countries have opted for the Classmate rather than OLPC's so-called "$100 laptop," which currently costs $175. Although OLPC will continue to use AMD chips for the near future, Intel will likely find its place in the $100 laptop further down the road.
I personally liked the idea of competition with different platforms, because I think the kids would win.
Ahh, what a capitalist idea, lol.
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|Happy to see Intel in the joint effort. The most important problem is that $100 laptop is still a dream for many countries. I shall be thankful if intel could make you of their distribution channel for this 100$ laptop. As long as the processor is affordable it doesn't matter to the customer AMD or Intel. I am from Sri Lanka I have not even see 100$ laptop. I shall be thankful if government spend some thing useful for the education rather than dumping money on war
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|yeah agreed, u r not the only person facing this problem, all of us who lives in the subcontinent are facing this problem and u may agree me that all of us has just seen $100 laptop in pictures only..............................
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|Well, we all know by now that Intel is winning in price/performance against AMD, and this could eventually mean drastic performance improvements with newer intel hardware in the OLPC.
I'm seeing them making more improvements to the ultralow voltage 1.1ghz core solo to be placed in a future model.
Wait...does this mean Intel might leave the EeePC project?
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|just couldn't let that piece of pie go!
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