Intel undermines the $100 charity laptop Initiative (Shocking)

[thunderman]

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:

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

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

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

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

AMD4life!

 

[spuddyt]

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....)

 

[cnumartyr]

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.

 

[ctbaars]

Is AMD supporting OLPC?

 

[Gravemind123]

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.

 

[Ironnads]

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!

Ryan Adds

 

[The-Darkening]

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

Em... Sorry.

 

[turpit]

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:

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

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

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

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

AMD4life!

Ahhhh......You are so funny its just too precious

 

[Ironnads]

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

Em... Sorry.

Estas del tomate!

Ryan

 

[NMDante]

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.

 

[Major_Spittle]

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

 

[Ironnads]

(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..

 

[Ironnads]

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.

 

[Major_Spittle]

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.

They would just use the OLPC to surf Europorn and play Doom.

Hell, they don't even sell them with a free box of condoms which is the real solution for poverty.

 

[spuddyt]

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Ahhhh......You are so funny its just too precious

those laughing smilies..... there is something strangely demonic about them.... its like.... _______ thatmmuch
i dont understand!

 

[turpit]

those laughing smilies..... there is something strangely demonic about them.... its like.... _______ thatmmuch
i dont understand!

This from a guy with an avatar of Mario doggy boffing the Princess????????

 

[TechnologyCoordinator]

Wow, breaking news... FROM MAY OF 2007

 

[thunderman]

Intel cares little about this scheme, they are just trying to make a fast buck. The OLPC is a genuine caring scheme to help the less well off in the world. Intel have stooped very low to undermine Professor Negroponte good work. Intel will swallow up the OLPC scheme then abuse it's evil cooperate position as usual.

Intel are the Evil Empire!

 

[Evilonigiri]

That's fantastic!

 

[djcoolmasterx]

Despite this being a really old subject,

Isn't competition good for the consumer?

This forces both companies to lower the price of their laptops to compete with each other. This benifits the consumer as they pay less.

 

[turpit]

Intel cares little about this scheme, they are just trying to make a fast buck. The OLPC is a genuine caring scheme to help the less well off in the world. Intel have stooped very low to undermine Professor Negroponte good work. Intel will swallow up the OLPC scheme then abuse it's evil cooperate position as usual.

Intel are the Evil Empire!

Dude, stop your killing me.......[/wipe tears of laughter from eyes]

 

[Major_Spittle]

Intel cares little about this scheme, they are just trying to make a fast buck. The OLPC is a genuine caring scheme to help the less well off in the world. Intel have stooped very low to undermine Professor Negroponte good work. Intel will swallow up the OLPC scheme then abuse it's evil cooperate position as usual.

Intel are the Evil Empire!

Explain to me who this program will help? If I was poor and got one I would just pawn it to buy food when I got hungry. Have you ever been hungry and not able to get food for a day?

Why wouldn't corporations just donate old computers to schools to help poor people, oooopps I guess they already do.

 

[surrealdeal]

"most markets thrive on competition" yeah, but they also know what consumers consider outrageous to pay for. Now we need the [RED] colored laptop.

 

[dagoth_ur]

I'm just wondering why are you even replying to this topic. IMO thunderman (lol) is some kind of a 12 year old i*iot who thinks he knows everything. No offense against young people, they may be intelligent, opposing to thunderman. If his parents have bought him Intel CPU, he would be an Intel fanboy. I dont like flamewars, being started with posts like the op's ones.

 

[MarkG]

Isn't competition good for the consumer?

Not when one company's goal is to force the other out of business and then raise prices; I have a hard time believing that Intel are seriously entering the $100 laptop market, rather than trying to destroy that market.