Intel takes on OLPC
p2pnet.net News:- Intel wouldn’t touch the altruistic One Laptop per Child project, with company boss Craig Barrett dismissing it as a “gadget”.
But that didn’t mean Intel isn’t prepared to make a buck or ten out of ‘helping’ the needy.
So it’s about to go up against OLPC, which was very definitely started not with profit in mind, but to help poorer kids get in touch with each other and the world via efficient, affordable laptops, now going out at about $150 each.
Chipzilla has announced it’s going to, “provide greater accessibility to the world’s underserved by rapidly creating access to fully capable, affordable PCs that are tailored to meet their needs”.
“Undeserved,” eh? Good one. But Intel hopes it’ll soon fix that. At a price, of course. $400 laptop per Classmate PC, to be exact.
The new product will be, “evaluated in Brazil next year alongside a cheaper alternative from a nonprofit group seeking to bring computers to poor children worldwide,” says Associated Press, adding:
“The company said it would donate 700 to 800 of the US$400 (€300) ‘Classmate PC,’ to the government for a large-scale evaluation in schools. Intel has already tested the computers on a smaller scale with students and teachers in a poor neighborhood of Campinas, near Sao Paulo. Elber Mazaro, marketing director for Intel in Brazil, said this marked the first time the company had reached an agreement with any government for this kind of testing.
“The agreement to test the Classmate PC comes after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva last month received a prototype of a US$150 (€110) laptop developed by the U.S. nonprofit group One Laptop Per Child.”
Also See:
dismissing it – Intel boss scorns MIT laptop, December 9, 2005
$150 each – 1st 10 OLPC units shipped, November 20, 2006
Associated Press – Brazil to test US$400 (€300) Intel laptop in schools, December 5, 2006
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December 6th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
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December 6th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
it takes real courage to post as anonymous that you are tired of the actions that you describe as “rants against everybody.”, real courage!
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