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."

Comments

Undesired if you used a Pentium 4

[GeoffSmith1981]

Maybe Intel is just jealous because to hand-crank power a Pentium 4 laptop would take you a few hours.

limited range of programs

[7macaw]

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

Re:Bah, Sayeth Scrooge

[paranode]

Hey as long as it runs Linux, the children of the world can play Nethack. It brings a tear to my eye.