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Intel Calls $100 Laptops Undesired Gadgets
dolphinlover writes "Craig Barrett, Intel Corporation chairman believes that the $100 laptop computers to be manufactured by the MIT media lab run by Nicholas Negroponte beginning in early 2006 are merely 'gadgets', making them unattractive to consumers who will be disappointed by their 'limited range of programs'." From the article: "Negroponte said at their launch in November the new machines would be sold to governments for schoolchildren at $100 a device but the general public would have to pay around $200 -- still much cheaper than the machines using Intel's chips. But Barrett said similar schemes in the past elsewhere in the world had failed and users would not be satisfied with the new machine's limited range of programs."
Deja vu all over again.
We must be alert to the danger that public policy could become captive to a scientific-technological elite. - Eisenhower
640K ought to be enough for everybody!
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Maybe Intel is just jealous because to hand-crank power a Pentium 4 laptop would take you a few hours.
You can only get finite-sized memory for $200 and therefore the range of programs is limited. For $2000 the amount of memory you get is... oh wait
Grundes!
If anyone gets kicked in the balls over one, then these laptops are gold.
I'm surprised all the battery makers haven't jumped on the badwagon, saying hand crank is no way to run anything and solar power is impractical, now if you'll just look at these lovely Duracells...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Some 90 percent of Sri Lankans were literate but only 10 percent computer literate, he said. Class, today we will be learning about Intel...(projector displays blue man group ad for intel)...
10 minutes of elbow grease and you're back surfing again
What's the use surfing with hands tired!
Grundes!
You will not be satisfied with an economical competetitor.
You will not be satisfied with an economical competetitor.
You must pay $3600 for the latest and greatest Dell XPS laptop or you will never be happy.
Intel is your ONLY friend.
Intel is your ONLY friend.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.
I think someone should change the name "Negroponte" to something more politically correct. Like "Africanamericanponte".
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
I, for one, welcome our Beowulf cluster building Nigerian overlords.
... Me! Me! Me! Pay attention to ME!
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea...."
RFC 1925
Hey as long as it runs Linux, the children of the world can play Nethack. It brings a tear to my eye.
Yeah you'll just have to pause Tux Racer while you crank up the battery for a few minutes so you can play longer. ;)
Well, until they see that the blue "e" is missing and they ask why "the Internet" isn't installed.
Books don't break! (Generally speaking)
I believe that there's need for maybe 5 inexpensive laptops in the world.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
Just a matter of time before some opportunist does thus:
My name is Ebou Nogamono and I need your help in retrieving 14,732 gold coins from Croesus' Vault...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Thankfully you're getting paid by the hour.
what do they hope to accomplish with these comments? it's not like MIT is going to go "Oh, intel is right, we should be providing them with brand new HP pavillions. We can provide them at $1,000 a machine, and think of what the added power will let those people do! They can play World of Warcraft, and maybe do some CAD...oh yeah, and video editing to boot!"
Yes, a virtual library... with the erotica section you always imagined as a kid...