Better than OLPC
Better than OLPC
Posted Jan 8, 2009 13:54 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (guest, #15091)In reply to: Better than OLPC by dlang
Parent article: Changes at OLPC
I think that the ideas behind OLPC and the Eee are very different: one develops exclusive technology for education, while the other uses standard, outdated components to build a small form factor laptop. Whether the OLPC concept was an inspiration of any kind for the Asus team I don't know, but the components were there and ready to assemble. The small flash disk is certainly an enabling technology, but that is hardly an OLPC achievement (and not used in later models).
The announcement of a $199 laptop (as compared to the "$100 laptop" from OLPC) might seem an obvious ripoff. But not necessarily so. Remember the sub-$1000 PC craze of a few years ago? Everyone was selling those systems at the time.