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RE: Hum.
By TomZ on 5/21/2007 10:08:55 PM , Rating: 1
If Intel can do a better job and/or deliver a more cost effective solution, then OLPC should be out of business. If they can't compete with Intel on the merits of the product, then it does a disservice to the end customers that they are potentially paying for economic inefficiency with OLPC.

RE: Hum.
By gorobei on 5/23/2007 4:50:47 AM , Rating: 2
it's not a question of the lowest priced product.

The OLPC is designed specifically for the market and physical environment it is to be sold in. it costs $175 for the right product for those people. Intel is selling a $300 product that technically is more powerful but less useful because is isn't designed to function in that environment with no support, no spare parts, no telephone or broadband servers.

Do your grandparents need 8 rack blade server with 4 quad xeons procs to send email? Most likely not, they probably could do with a celeron or cyrix chip if that is all they ever do.

It's not that the OLPC cant compete on merit. It's that INTEL is selling the Classmate below the actual cost. Because it's cheaper to flood the market with bad product sold at a loss for a little while than to let AMD dominate this market niche until INTEL can actually make a better product.


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