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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Wed/inteloplc.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Wed/inteloplc.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..facd6e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Wed/inteloplc.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +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. + +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. + +And to think everyone laughed at Negroponte when he first proposed the idea of a $100 laptop. + +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. + +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. + +For more details on the new Intel laptop, awkwardly dubbed Eee, check out [Gadget Lab's coverage][1]. + +[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"
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