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Story: IDC: Low-cost laptop no threat to PC

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Low-cost laptop vs. Microsoft and Intel PC industry

Thanks to Linux OS becomming available to the mass market thanks to the OLPC, and thanks to fanless low power hardware, low cost computers will now revolutionnize the PC industry.

Microsoft and Intel have had a near monopoly until today on setting the agenda in the hardware and software industry. The agenda has so far been to make faster and more expensive computers every year using more and more bloated software. More expensive hardware provides more margins to all the manufacturers and resellers of the PC industry. Microsoft, Intel and the resellers do not like mass market and low margins. It is hard for them to compete with free software and little to no margin mass production of cheapest possible hardware.

OLPC is better than a "full blown" Wintel PC. All in terms of features, price and power consumption.

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