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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.
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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