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Story: Two laptops per child
Intel Classmate costs $400 - not $200.
There is price dumping going on. Intel is not planning to ship millions of their small computers at $180, but just tens of thousands.
Intel is not advocating mass marketing of cheap laptops, what Intel wants, is for countries to purchase just tens of thousands of Classmate units which Intel will discount at their half production price. Supposedly Intel's advice is for countries to test a few thousand laptops before committing to OLPC or any other million-order mass production deal.
Intel might as well just give out 10 thousand normal laptops to each country as a bribe for them not to invest in the mass production and mass deployment of the first generation OLPC XO-1 computers.
The truth is OLPC has developped much too many revolutionnary innovations including power managment, screen, Wi-Fi Mesh range, optimized Linux software and a DCON system that can turn off the main processor most of the time during non-processor intensive tasks. All these revolutionnary technologies Intel provides non of in the Classmate, all Intel wants desperately is to prevent OLPC from getting enough orders to be able to start the mass production of its first generation product.
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