Comments on: $100 Laptop Seems To Have Crashed http://www.psfk.com/2008/01/100-laptop-seems-to-have-crashed.html Ideas & Trends Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:51:03 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Daniel Bremmer http://www.psfk.com/2008/01/100-laptop-seems-to-have-crashed.html/comment-page-1#comment-11035 Daniel Bremmer Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:20:18 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/2008/01/100-laptop-seems-to-have-crashed.html#comment-11035 Intel is just pissed because the OLPC (running on AMD processors) has the potential to school the wintel monopoly. There are far more kids in developing nations that need a laptop that costs less than a years worth of textbooks than cubicle jockeys in the developed world who need to get their outlook fixed so they can go back to surfing for another job. It has never been intended for users of full-featured computers or operating systems, it's for the next generation of innovators that have yet to start writing code. Look at what India is doing, that's what OLPC wants to do for the world. Intel is just pissed because the OLPC (running on AMD processors) has the potential to school the wintel monopoly. There are far more kids in developing nations that need a laptop that costs less than a years worth of textbooks than cubicle jockeys in the developed world who need to get their outlook fixed so they can go back to surfing for another job. It has never been intended for users of full-featured computers or operating systems, it’s for the next generation of innovators that have yet to start writing code. Look at what India is doing, that’s what OLPC wants to do for the world.

]]> By: Noah Brier http://www.psfk.com/2008/01/100-laptop-seems-to-have-crashed.html/comment-page-1#comment-11007 Noah Brier Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:39:38 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/2008/01/100-laptop-seems-to-have-crashed.html#comment-11007 Looks like things aren't so cut and dry with Intel. According to the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/technology/05laptop.html?ex=1357189200&en=9c2c17178c11e828&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">New York Times</a>, "In Peru, where One Laptop has begun shipping the first 40,000 PCs of a 270,000 system order, Isabelle Lama, an Intel saleswoman, tried to persuade Peru’s vice minister of education, Oscar Becerra Tresierra, that the Intel Classmate PC was a better choice for his primary school students. Unfortunately for Intel, the vice minister is a longtime acquaintance of Mr. Negroponte and Seymour Papert, a member of the One Laptop team and an M.I.T. professor who developed the Logo computer programming language. The education minister took notes on his contacts with the Intel saleswoman and sent them to One Laptop officials." Looks like things aren’t so cut and dry with Intel. According to the New York Times, “In Peru, where One Laptop has begun shipping the first 40,000 PCs of a 270,000 system order, Isabelle Lama, an Intel saleswoman, tried to persuade Peru’s vice minister of education, Oscar Becerra Tresierra, that the Intel Classmate PC was a better choice for his primary school students.

Unfortunately for Intel, the vice minister is a longtime acquaintance of Mr. Negroponte and Seymour Papert, a member of the One Laptop team and an M.I.T. professor who developed the Logo computer programming language. The education minister took notes on his contacts with the Intel saleswoman and sent them to One Laptop officials.”

]]> By: Nigel Legg http://www.psfk.com/2008/01/100-laptop-seems-to-have-crashed.html/comment-page-1#comment-11000 Nigel Legg Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:44:17 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/2008/01/100-laptop-seems-to-have-crashed.html#comment-11000 OLPC as, i my vie, doomed fm the sart, as it us an opeating system (LNUX) whih is not mainstream, thereby not givng it's users athe real technological skills that thy will need to compete on a level playing field and is it ignoes the fact that the so called basic needs - food, water, shelter, and fuel have to be supplied first in order for the user of the laptop to make he most of it. OLPC as, i my vie, doomed fm the sart, as it us an opeating system (LNUX) whih is not mainstream, thereby not givng it’s users athe real technological skills that thy will need to compete on a level playing field and is it ignoes the fact that the so called basic needs – food, water, shelter, and fuel have to be supplied first in order for the user of the laptop to make he most of it.

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