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Classmate PC Gets (Almost) Real Want To Know Something Cool and other thoughts
and musing by Scott Hamilton can be found at:
First, lest we think the developing world will be completely Microsoft-free in the oh-so-connected future, the Classmate will be sporting everybody's FAVE OS, Windows XP. (There's a third of the $400 price tag, right there!) To power that resource-loving XP, the Classmate will carry a whopping 256MB DDR2 RAM (can you even boot XP past a Blue Screen Of Death with that?), a single lonely GB of NAND flash storage, a 7" display at 800x400, and a 6-cell lithium-ion battery (Sony? Wait, do we smell smoke??). Oddly, the Classmate d33t5 FROM INTEL fails to mention a processor. What is up with that? Anyway, you should be able to get your Classmate in the Spring of 2007. allegedly. For those developing nations who will eschew the open-source OLPC, the Classmate will be the, uh, not exactly "Cadillac," but probably a (small) step up from the hand-crank love. Cool, huh?
Want To Know Something Cool and other thoughts and musing by Scott Hamilton can be found at: knowsomethingcool.blogspot.com
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Those of you scoring at home can add a tally mark to the until-now-empty Intel column on the scorecard of low-cost, third-world-loving computers. The Classmate PC, which can be had for the price of three units from other vendors, has finally got some specs.