Intel Unveils PC for Developing Nations

Poppler writes "Intel has announced it will produce a PC aimed at developing nations, the 'Community PC.' Instead of giving out minimal PCs to as many individuals as possible, Intel wants to sell these machines to 'kiosk owners' who will rent out use to their village. Price TBA. How does this stack up against the $100 laptop, in terms of helping the developing world?"

Comments

Just what the world needs

[liliafan]

Cool lets get some of these sent to Nigeria so we can get some more 419 scams going on, I really could use a share in $10 million just for helping to move the money. This really works out as a winning situation for everyone, cheap computers for developing nations, Intel makes money, and I get some of the money left by a rich former head of state, hopefully I will get more invitations to be involved.

bill gates

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't see these pc's running anything other than windows. Which brings us back to when Bill Gates mocked the $100 MIT laptop in favour of powerhungry broadband windows boxes. Nevermind that some of these third-world children don't have electricity, let alone broadband. But damnit, with the combined forces of Intel and Microsoft, i'm sure they'll make it work!

Addition to other community things...

[VorpalRodent]

Based on what we've learned from previous articles, we have to assume that this computer will be powered by manure.

Apparently everyone wants a slice of the "manure powered apparatus" pie. I've got to go find out what I can put into a developing nation and get powered by manure (thus providing more jobs for their fragile manure based economy).

Re:Whoah.

[Senzei]

That's exactly right. See, how things work is that there are three, strictly seperate, formally defined, qualities of life. You have:

• Third world countries: Where people are dirt poor, bath, cook, and wash their clothes in rivers of pee and chemical waste, eat dirt pies for lunch and crow for dinner, suffer from rampant disease and have doctors who couldn't find their own assholes with two hands, a map, and a guide.
• Developed nations: Where everyone has more or less every need fulfilled, access to the education system is plentiful, and 2-story ranch houses grow on trees, so people give them away to keep them from cluttering up the yard.
• The super rich: I have no idea what really goes on here. I have heard tell that they have copyrights and patents on entire colors and smells, enabling an experience of the world that the rest of us simply cannot comprehend. They also have pills to make their farts smell like flowers.

Or maybe there are people who are above the "I-lived-on-earth-and-all-I-got-was-this-distended -stomach" level but not quite ready to move to the suburbs. Perhaps, just perhaps, this laptop is meant to help them develop further so there are more people capable of helping out the extreme low end of poverty.

Then again that makes for a crap sound bite, so maybe you are right after all.