Intel’s response to OLPC?




A classroom filed with children using Classmate PC’s

In October, I mentioned Libya’s agreement with One Laptop per Child (OLPC), the non-profit group working on an inexpensive laptop for children in developing countries.

Intel is now developing a laptop for school children, the Classmate PC, which will be more powerful and sell for more than the OLPC laptop. It will still cost far less than a conventional laptop. The Classmate PC will run a simplified Microsoft Windows operating system. The OLPC laptop runs on Linux.

Here’s a review of the Classmate PC.

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