[Air-l] Two Laptops Per Child?

[R.Mabry-Hubbard (UMC Student)]

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]


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Robin Y. Mabry Hubbard, MBA, EdS
Rural Sociology Doctoral Student - Community Informatics
Email: ryh352 at mizzou.edu  My Homepage: http://www.rrchubbard.org
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