This isn't meant to compete with what Asus is offering. Based on what I saw on 60 Minutes, this is Intel's crass attempt to compete with the OLPC. I hope Apple begins offering AMD processors soon, then I can live Intel free.
The Eee and Classmate are similar enough in hardware to be comparable, though they are for very different purposes. The OLPC XO is in a class of its own, so it would be apples and oranges.
Will, I think it was less a response to OLPC than a response to AMD being in every XO. Intel is now partnering with OLPC though, so I imagine that there will not be a Classmate 2.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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This cant compare to the EeePC. None of them can. Im afraid Asus has the superior product here now. Sorry, but its true.
This isn't meant to compete with what Asus is offering. Based on what I saw on 60 Minutes, this is Intel's crass attempt to compete with the OLPC. I hope Apple begins offering AMD processors soon, then I can live Intel free.
The Eee and Classmate are similar enough in hardware to be comparable, though they are for very different purposes. The OLPC XO is in a class of its own, so it would be apples and oranges.
Will, I think it was less a response to OLPC than a response to AMD being in every XO. Intel is now partnering with OLPC though, so I imagine that there will not be a Classmate 2.
cmonkey, I stand corrected. I see what you mean about Intel now supporting the OLPC. Good for them.