OLPC becomes more obsolete as Intel unveils latest Classmate
PCs

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SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp. unveiled new features for its line of low-cost 
laptops for schools Wednesday, adding bigger screens and more data storage 
capacity as the chip maker ratchets up its rivalry with the One Laptop per 
Child organization, which sells a competing machine.

Other tweaks to the Classmate that Intel announced Wednesday from its 
developer forum in Shanghai include the availability of both 7-inch and 
9-inch screens, a 30 gigabyte hard disk drive and an integrated Web camera.





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On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 07:30:31 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:

>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080403/ap_on_hi_te/intel_low_cost_laptops;_ylt=At9N
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> 
> 
> SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp. unveiled new features for its line of low-cost

> laptops for schools Wednesday, adding bigger screens and more data storage

> capacity as the chip maker ratchets up its rivalry with the One Laptop per

> Child organization, which sells a competing machine.
> 
> Other tweaks to the Classmate that Intel announced Wednesday from its 
> developer forum in Shanghai include the availability of both 7-inch and 
> 9-inch screens, a 30 gigabyte hard disk drive and an integrated Web
camera.

The OLPC was obsolete the day it was released.
Not because it wasn't a noble ide, but because the Linux loons running the
projected corrupted and mismanaged the entire thing.

Typical......

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"Cork Soaker" <Cork@Soaker.invalid> wrote in message 
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> Ezekiel wrote:
>
>>
>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080403/ap_on_hi_te/intel_low_cost_laptops;_ylt=At9N
1SfKPmp8RLc34R0dHzkjtBAF
>>
>>
>> SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp. unveiled new features for its line of 
>> low-cost
>> laptops for schools Wednesday, adding bigger screens and more data 
>> storage
>> capacity as the chip maker ratchets up its rivalry with the One Laptop

>> per
>> Child organization, which sells a competing machine.
>>
>> Other tweaks to the Classmate that Intel announced Wednesday from its
>> developer forum in Shanghai include the availability of both 7-inch
and
>> 9-inch screens, a 30 gigabyte hard disk drive and an integrated Web
>> camera.
>>
>>
>
>
> It's not even close to being a rival.
>
> It uses too much power, doesn't have the "practically-dead"
power-saving
> capabilities, and is twice the price! How the hell can you call that a
> rival?

The Classmate isn't a rival in the same way that the Brownsville Gazzette 
isn't a rival to the New York Times. The Classmate kicks the OLPC's ass and 
then mops up the floor with it. The OLPC is on life support. It's basically 
dead only you haven't figured it out yet.



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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Rick
<none@nomail.com>
 wrote
on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:58:27 -0500
<4_adnbgy_pNFtWjanZ2dnUVZ_qLinZ2d@supernews.com>:
> Ezekiel wrote:
>>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080403/ap_on_hi_te/intel_low_cost_laptops;_ylt=At9N
1SfKPmp8RLc34R0dHzkjtBAF
>> 
>> 
>> SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp. unveiled new features for
>> its line of low-cost laptops for schools Wednesday,
>> adding bigger screens and more data storage capacity
>> as the chip maker ratchets up its rivalry with the
>> One Laptop per Child organization, which sells
>> a competing machine.
>> 
>> Other tweaks to the Classmate that Intel announced
>> Wednesday from its developer forum in Shanghai include
>> the availability of both 7-inch and 9-inch screens,
>> a 30 gigabyte hard disk drive and an integrated Web camera.
>> 
> Since it never was obsolete, it can't become obsolete.

??

That statement didn't quite parse; clarification?

I should note that I am using a laptop with a 15" screen,
which was obsolete when I got it.  Battery lifetime on
this beast (HP Compaq nx9010) is about 2 hours [*]; 512 MB
(upgradable to 1 GB) RAM and 40 GB drive (upgradable to
80), along with wifi, CD/DVD (I don't think it's a burner),
and a 3 1/2" floppy complete the ensemble.

Clearly this unit is more powerful than an OLPC or a
Classmate, but then it serves a different market.  I'm not
a schoolchild in a highly corrupt, impoverished country
(though I do wonder quite a bit as to corruption here
:-) ).

Perhaps that's where the problem truly is -- and if so,
a bit OT for COLA.

Good luck on Intel achieving 11 hour battery lifetime,
especially since a schoolday is about 6 hours in length,
well past the existing Classmate's 3 hour limit.

I'm also curious as to what Windows OS the Classmate will use.

>
> ... and...
>
> Why don't you find it curious that the for-profit
> corporations had no interest in low cost small
> computers until the not-for-profits showed it 
> can be done, and people would but them?
>

I'm assuming "buy".  I'll admit to some mild curiosity
there myself.  Microsoft pulled a similar trick when ODF
was announced, and now OOXML is poised to compete for
mindshare with ODF.

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Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 07:30:31 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:
> 
>>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080403/ap_on_hi_te/intel_low_cost_laptops;_ylt=At9N
1SfKPmp8RLc34R0dHzkjtBAF
>> 
>> 
>> SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp. unveiled new features for its line of
>> low-cost laptops for schools Wednesday, adding bigger screens and more
>> data storage capacity as the chip maker ratchets up its rivalry with
the
>> One Laptop per Child organization, which sells a competing machine.
>> 
>> Other tweaks to the Classmate that Intel announced Wednesday from its
>> developer forum in Shanghai include the availability of both 7-inch
and
>> 9-inch screens, a 30 gigabyte hard disk drive and an integrated Web
>> camera.
> 
> The OLPC was obsolete the day it was released.
> Not because it wasn't a noble ide, but because the Linux loons running the
> projected corrupted and mismanaged the entire thing.
> 
> Typical......
> 

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