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What's Intel's purpose here?

What's Intel's purpose here?

Posted Apr 1, 2007 4:25 UTC (Sun) by djabsolut (guest, #12799)
In reply to: What's Intel's purpose here? by BrucePerens
Parent article: Mandriva participates in Intel's Classmate PC project

It doesn't make business sense.

From a marketing point of view it works. People in wealthy countries are more likely to get a "warm fuzzy feeling" buying a desktop PC that uses components from a company which is has a project to help out the 3rd world. (In effect they're indirectly helping OLPC by bringing more credence to the low-cost laptop idea.)


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