- May 5, 2006 • 10:08 am PDT
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The fight between Intel and Nicolas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child is heating up. If you haven't heard, OLPC has designed a very basic laptop that costs only $100: the proverbial $100 laptop. The idea is that by making laptops cheap and simple, you can open up lots of places in the world to computer and internet technology, which, as we know, makes everything better. Intel thinks the $100 laptop is a stupid way to give technology to the developing world. They've designed a less basic $400 dollar laptop (the $400 laptop doesn't have quite the same ring). Because clearly, if you have no laptop, and your thinking about getting one, why wouldn't you just spring for the $400 one.
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