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First Review of Intel's New Classmate PC
An anonymous reader writes "Intel gave the press a sneak preview of its 3rd generation Classmate PC at IDF. It looks like this guy managed to kidnap the only working sample for a while and write up a full report. It looks like a major departure from the original, with a rotating touch screen and Atom processor. There's no official word on pricing yet, but no doubt the OLPC guys will try to rain on Intel's parade."
Craze is right. Toshiba was making sub-notebooks over a decade ago. The OLPC is just a con job to make people think that they are donating to charity when all they are really doing is paying for someone else's R&D. At the end of the day, the OLPC is too expensive for an inferior machine.
Oh, and did you even read the link you gave? That thing claims that we were promised a $100 laptop with a high res color display and a cool Star Trek keyboard. It claims we were promised this on a computer that was solar powered. It also claims that the OLPCs were going to be donated, but as far as I have ever heard, they were in fact be sold to poor countries. If you want to convince people of your way of thinking, you might not want to link to articles that argue against your point.