Negroponte's competitor: One laptop per rich child
Classmate PC – Intel's low-cost educational laptop – which was initially designed for developing countries is now going to be distributed in Europe and in the United States.
Here's a cost comparison of the low-cost and educational laptops out there:
- Eee PC from Taiwan's Asustek Computer: $399
- XO from One Laptop Per Child Foundation: $188
- Classmate PC from Intel: $350
- Making a profit from a do-good idea: priceless (or is it?).
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Pertinent here, a critique I had written a while ago of the notion that macro-economic conditions can result in the need for a radically re-designed computer architecture:
http://sancairodicopenhagen.com/joe/node/2
Posted by: Josef Assad | Mar 20, 2008 12:57:07 AM
Hi Alan,
In the sub-notebook market, we also have the ECS G10IL (apparently, all the less complex names have been taken), the Everex Cloudbook, Dell Vostro, and rumor has it that HP will have a contender too.
This space is really heating up.
Anyway, my opinion is that doing good and making a profit does not have to be mutually exclusive. Although aside from the OLPC, it seems like the other vendors are out there not necessarily to do good, but to make money (by jumping on a validated untapped market!)
Posted by: Jay Liew | Mar 20, 2008 1:39:45 AM