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Intel have gone too far this time, they should be ashamed of themselves. This is just Evil...unbelievable.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6675833.stm

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Chip-maker Intel "should be ashamed of itself" for efforts to undermine the $100 laptop initiative, according to its founder Nicholas Negroponte.



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Professor Negroponte, who aims to distribute millions of laptops to kids in developing countries, said Intel had hurt his mission "enormously".



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He accused Intel of selling its own cut-price laptop - the Classmate - below cost to drive him out of markets



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Professor Negroponte says Intel has distributed marketing literature to governments with titles such as "the shortcomings of the One Laptop per Child approach", which outline the supposedly stronger points of the Classmate



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oh shut up, you know something? most markets thrive on competition..... which pushes price down what the prof is saying is "intel is selling it's own version of MY product at a better price" and so FFS STFU and stop making flamebait threads in which you bash intel (i know your paid by amd, but please do it on another forum)
and i also notice they aren't really in the same price range - that article says the class mate costs $200, and how much is the OLPC laptop suposed to cost? oh yeah, half that (so actually i invalidated my own viewpoint, since they aren't competing....)


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Oh noez, Intel is selling cheap laptops to help the children..

We have enough people like this on the internet, we don't need more 8 year olds getting one.


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Is AMD supporting OLPC?

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AMD left the project a couple months back if I recall correctly, and they don't offer an alternative to it either, unlike Intel is doing.

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Why not Cnumartyr?? I think it'd be fantastic! I waste far too much time at school trying to show the kids how to use computers.. And I don't think the age matters - I remember losing a chess tournament to a little 8 year old girl! (ouch!). Believe me, kids are capable of far more than given credit for. As for the competition - it can only be good for all possible customers concerened as it improves quality and drives prices down. - believe me (-;. As for thunderman's comment - maybe he has understood that we all need amd/ati at the end of the day for the reason I just explained - that of competition.. So, yes! Come on Amd! (then we may finally see the 9000 series gpu an the 45 nm Cpus..) Zabba!

Be safe for the new year!

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Gggggrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaagggggggggrrrrrrrrwwwww.... Pelotudo..... grogrllllllllllllllllllllll

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thunderman wrote :

Intel have gone too far this time, they should be ashamed of themselves. This is just Evil...unbelievable.

Artice:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6675833.stm

Article Quotes:

Quote :

Chip-maker Intel "should be ashamed of itself" for efforts to undermine the $100 laptop initiative, according to its founder Nicholas Negroponte.



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Professor Negroponte, who aims to distribute millions of laptops to kids in developing countries, said Intel had hurt his mission "enormously".



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He accused Intel of selling its own cut-price laptop - the Classmate - below cost to drive him out of markets



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Professor Negroponte says Intel has distributed marketing literature to governments with titles such as "the shortcomings of the One Laptop per Child approach", which outline the supposedly stronger points of the Classmate



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The-Darkening wrote :

Gggggrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaagggggggggrrrrrrrrwwwww.... Pelotudo..... grogrllllllllllllllllllllll

Em... Sorry.



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Gravemind123 wrote :

AMD left the project a couple months back if I recall correctly, and they don't offer an alternative to it either, unlike Intel is doing.



Really? I thought AMD was still part of the OLPC project. I really don't know, but it would've been news if the OLPCs only source for its CPU left the project.


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http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Inte [...] 27119.html

look a new story regarding this.


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Poor people smell like sour milk, how is a computer going to change that.

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(quote)costs of production would be kept low if nations ordered the computers by the million but orders of this magnitude have yet to materialise(unquote)

How the hellll is that posssible?????????
What's 100,000,000 ollars to a country??
Maybe some countries prefer there people to remain uneducated. The internet has to be an integral part of development and education..

Gates could buy one for every American that's 25,000,000,000 dollars, an still have 10 billion change in his pocket..
Ryan..

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major_spittle wrote :

Poor people smell like sour milk, how is a computer going to change that.



The only thing that stinks here Major, are remarks like that.. I can only hope it was tongue in cheek that went way way way over my head..

Ryan.


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