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+Not content with using [ruthless marketing tactics to muscle in on charity projects][2], Intel unveiled a second sub-notebook plan today, which will see the chip maker teaming up with Asustek Computer, the world's largest maker of computer motherboards.
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+Today's announcement comes just weeks after Intel publicly criticized the OLPC project and announced its own competing [Classmates PC initiative][3], which hopes to ship 1,230 low-cost PCs to governments in Asia later this year.
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+And to think everyone laughed at Negroponte when he first proposed the idea of a $100 laptop.
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+Unlike the Classmates PC, Intel and Asustek's new offering would be a fully fledged, low-end notebook and offer no hand crank options for situations where there is no electricity.
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+The resulting notebook will reportedly cost around $240 and is aimed at, not the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) market, but rather more traditional consumers via the usual channels like retail outlets.
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+For more details on the new Intel laptop, awkwardly dubbed Eee, check out [Gadget Lab's coverage][1].
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+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/06/intel_vs_olpc_r.html "Intel vs OLPC Round Two. Fight!"
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/negroponte_accu.html "Negroponte Accuses Intel Of Hitting Below The Belt"
+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/microsoft_will_.html "Developing Gov'ts Get a Choice: Free Linux or $3 Windows" \ No newline at end of file