Followup from Intel on the OLPC debacle

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How can anyone support Classmate?: The Classmate reference design is such a worthless piece of kit, Intel obvioulsy rushed it out the door 6 months after the first prototypes of the OLPC were released over a year and a half ago. Since then the Classmate has not evolved. And if it has, it would make absolutely no sence for the Classmate 2 reference design not to incorporate MANY of the OLPC technologies such as WiFi Mesh, dual-mode sunlight readable super low power consuming screen, DCON CPU resume system to save lots of power, waterproof and sandproof simple hardware to withstand harsh use by kids and be school-reparable and especially use a FANLESS CPU.

All this BS about Teacher-control software is complete insane, it will never WORK. That's just a completely failed way to think of an educationnal software to have somehow the teacher moderating the use of the laptops through some completely insane desktop blocking firewall whatever in Windows XP. This is the WRONG way to do educationnal software. Educationnal software should be all about using a standard browser and the teacher can give assignments to the children, stuff to research on the Internet, write in a report collaboratively and have the report posted in realtime in a repository/journal for each student. This is the way it should be.

THERE are no philosophical differences between Intel and OLPC concept other than Intel executives are completely insane and they think they can control which markets should get new innovative cheap Linux laptop technologies and which markets should not. In fact, what Intel wants here, is to block the access to cheap Linux fanless laptops in the developped world, that is Intel's greatest fear, to loose the big margins that they have on expensive bloates laptop processors running bloated software like Windows Vista.; Posted by: charbax@... Posted on: 01/07/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use