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What happened to the hand cranked thin client?

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]]>May 4th 2006 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/
]]>May 4th 2006 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/intel is teh suck]]>May 4th 2006 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/Intel is trying to attract the rural market of India with its ' Ruggedised Personal Computer'(http://www.southasiabiz.com/2006/03/intel_corp_intc_pcs_for_rural.html).The PC can tolerate extreme heat, dust and humidity of rural India. ]]>May 4th 2006 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/May 4th 2006 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/May 4th 2006 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/May 4th 2006 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/May 4th 2006 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/]]>May 4th 2006 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/May 4th 2006 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/May 4th 2006 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/
The real bonus is that by coming with an Intel chip and Windows XP, it will have lousy battery life and be way slower. What more could you want?]]>May 4th 2006 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/
Scary.

Hey Mr Otellini, for a billion dollars how about setting up a recycling program ao instead of dumping yesterday's technology into developing country landfills, you could actually donate yesterday's technology for something useful??

"Special software allows students in a classroom to view presentations, take tests and interact individually with their teachers using a built-in wireless connection."

Am I missing something here? I guess you can't do that with today's computers cause that is like so "yesterday's technology".]]>May 4th 2006 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/Again I love my $2500 Core Duo laptop. But someone needs to lock these idiots in a boardroom and give them PR 101 lessons because this shit is just embarrassing for me and, even though they don’t realize it, for Intel.
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meh, who's John Galt?]]>May 4th 2006 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/
I don't know how ruggedized this might be, but I'm guessing it's at least somewhat toughened up.

Also, this is just a prototype to demonstrate feasibility. An actual product based on this spec might look much different/better.]]>May 4th 2006 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/May 4th 2006 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/
YAY IMPERIALISM!]]>May 4th 2006 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/This is a familiar way of doing business here. ]]>May 4th 2006 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/May 4th 2006 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/May 4th 2006 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/
If all of you commenters are so effing smart, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT THEN.

"Oooh, this multi-billion dollar company is SOOOO stupid. Not like me, sitting here in my underwear in front of my cheap computer eating cheese snacks and commenting on engadget.com."]]>May 4th 2006 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/
if this uses one of the new intel ULV cpus it could be worth checking out. If it uses a power hungry celeron on the other hand...]]>May 4th 2006 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/May 4th 2006 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/May 4th 2006 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/May 4th 2006 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/
Every motivation and subsequent action arises from selfish interest. Including charity and public service.]]>May 4th 2006 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/
If there giving away I just hope that it's measured at cost and not at RRP. I seriously doubt that that has a $400 cost price attached to it (or even that it's worth that much - but then again maybe it will be to someone in the third world)

As people say though... how the heck do you power it??? - powered by advertisements or maybe hotair.

Why be so sarcastic? Big companies have had abilities to help for years only in the day and age when new markets need to be secured do they actually do so.

I can picture the ebay searches now... (full of these things)]]>May 4th 2006 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/
Anyway, interesting price...I paid £399 (electronics-pound-dolar currency conversaion rate means $399...) for this laptop from a high-street shop with no fancy discounts. Ok no specs on this eduwise thing but from what I can see, the screen on that thing is about half the size of this 15inch one. I also get wifi and firewire and a keyboard designed for non-midgets. Half the price and it might be something worth talking about.

Anyway - what is this obsession with "IT in Education"? I know in the UK its been found that IT adds basically nothing to education, and that traditional UK teaching techniques are much more effective. IT has its place in certain situations, but it is not some "magic" tool to make kids clever.

Incidentally whilst we are on the subject, although probably 75-95% of uni students here have a laptop, it is VERY VERY rare for students to actually ahve their laptop in lectures and classes. Its no big deal here.]]>May 4th 2006 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/
Are you F'ing kidding me?!

How about selling them a $100 laptop and let them keep the $300 for FOOD!!!]]>May 4th 2006 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/May 4th 2006 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/
http://tinyurl.com/ge624

Talk about ugly. I'll just wait for a $500 deal on a Core Duo Inspiron :).]]>May 4th 2006 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/May 4th 2006 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/
If that's altruism, go ahead and enjoy. And if you have a better system than capitalism and freedom of exchange, go enjoy that too.

For a blog that should celebrate innovation and evolution in technology, the commentary here is often pretty stale. Or maybe I just missed the announcement of all the new technology coming out of North Korea and Cuba.]]>May 5th 2006 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/Sure.

What are they smokin' in those exec suites??]]>May 5th 2006 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/
#26: I'm sure this will be offered at this year's Black Friday., Oh boy i can't wait to see the Ghetto fights and sucker punches on CNN!]]>May 5th 2006 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/and you sent how many to Mexico?
What town did they go to and are there power lines running to the homes of the children in that community?

It has become apparent as to what actually motived Intel to get involved in the OLPC project to start with.

Yes! giving away the first batch of your version of these lowcost computers was a wonderful jester. And you may even force the designers of the orginal version that you stole the idea from to get off there tail bones and make things happen and stop talking about it as a possiblity and make it reality.
However $399.00usd is anything but cheap. Sure for the averge computer user here in the USA thats a tax dodge. But if you live in the Phillipines, that 19,064.22 PHP.
I have a Fiancee that is a teach I told her about the orginal OLPC project last spring and she has pasted on the information to every teacher and form of media over there that she knows of that will listen. They are all waiting and watching. and praying that there children will be next on the list.
But if your vesrion is the one that is choosen to be used I'm araind that they will have to go with out.
The most impressive thing they found was the self generation modual with it hand crank.
We all know why the crank handle was dememd a bad idea. so want on keep the manual crank generator and redsign the crank with a few inovative ideas.
such as recesing the crank and adding a simple program like a car going around a track show the care as it makes its way around the track all the while with each turn of a recesed handle being turned and when the car make its first lap have it lock in to place and notify the user that the battery is charged.
]]>Apr 7th 2007 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/04/intels-eduwise-low-cost-pc-revealed/Lawyers
Congress
the president
the vice president
car dealers
Intel
Drug dealers]]>Dec 3rd 2007 11:19AM