Because we can pretty much guarantee that if Intel are offering something unsustainable, then they won't sustain it, and they'll have managed to kill off the sustainable project through unfair business practices again.
It is kinda sickening what Intel is doing. I also agree that once OLPC is destroyed they will drop the clasmate. Plus OPLCE won't be able to get the price to drop as fast if they don't sell as much units as they projected. I guess Intel isnt ethical enough understand that they are not competing with AMD here, but a truly humanitarian effort to Bridge the digital Divide that exists among the poorer countries. To Intel it just seems to be the bottom line is that AMD is goin to sell more chips.
Intel had years to help out the poorer nations, but they chose just to sit by, rake in their profits and to a blind eye to the gaps. Now that someone is truly making an effort to they are getting scared that somehow affect their bottom line. The whole thing disgusts me.
Everyone is missing the point, Intel enables the country themselves to manufacture the Classmate PC. thus creating an economic multiplyer effect in creating new jobs, and keeping the government spending within their own country which will generate new taxes, and new services. The money for the OLPC is shipped to Taiwan for Quanta and the country gets nothing except the OLPC, what is the support model for this? Who do they call when it breaks. The Classmate PC is built on a well known and reliable platform that could create a whole new support industry in that country. And where is AMD? You don't think they are making any money on those chips going into the OLPC, please!!!!! You bet they are making money.
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elmer @ May 21st 2007 5:49AM
Because we can pretty much guarantee that if Intel are offering something unsustainable, then they won't sustain it, and they'll have managed to kill off the sustainable project through unfair business practices again.
Rzamora @ May 21st 2007 10:26PM
It is kinda sickening what Intel is doing. I also agree that once OLPC is destroyed they will drop the clasmate. Plus OPLCE won't be able to get the price to drop as fast if they don't sell as much units as they projected. I guess Intel isnt ethical enough understand that they are not competing with AMD here, but a truly humanitarian effort to Bridge the digital Divide that exists among the poorer countries. To Intel it just seems to be the bottom line is that AMD is goin to sell more chips.
Intel had years to help out the poorer nations, but they chose just to sit by, rake in their profits and to a blind eye to the gaps. Now that someone is truly making an effort to they are getting scared that somehow affect their bottom line. The whole thing disgusts me.
Doug @ Jun 5th 2007 5:59PM
Everyone is missing the point, Intel enables the country themselves to manufacture the Classmate PC. thus creating an economic multiplyer effect in creating new jobs, and keeping the government spending within their own country which will generate new taxes, and new services.
The money for the OLPC is shipped to Taiwan for Quanta and the country gets nothing except the OLPC, what is the support model for this? Who do they call when it breaks.
The Classmate PC is built on a well known and reliable platform that could create a whole new support industry in that country.
And where is AMD? You don't think they are making any money on those chips going into the OLPC, please!!!!! You bet they are making money.