Intel shows off Classmate PC at IDF - bit-tech.net Forums

Tim S · 18th Apr 2007, 06:03

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/04...ate_pc_at_idf/

kenco_uk · 18th Apr 2007, 09:05

I like that note-taking gadget.. very smart. I realise they're wanting maximum running time and/or to cut costs, but a 1024x768 screen would suit better and it would benefit from at least some L2 cache, rather than none at all.

HandMadeAndroid · 18th Apr 2007, 11:30

I've been watching with interest since the inception of the '100$ laptop' . What I've always wondered is what happens to all the old technology we have finished with, and why there is a need, if any to produce more computer in the first place? CPUs from just a few years back would do exactly the same thing as these new units. Indeed how many regular readers of Bit-Tech have bags of old stuff, graphics, mbs, cpus etc? We could have a yearly pool of this stuff and make machines to send to poor areas of the world?

fev · 18th Apr 2007, 11:47

hmm the back cover could be personalised in a school environment, logo, student name and the such

i have a cunning scheme

kenco_uk · 18th Apr 2007, 14:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by baldrick

i.. have a cunning plan

fixed

I agree with the above. Even a mobile Celeron is enough to run XP.

Woodstock · 18th Apr 2007, 20:48

surely that could have chucked 512mb of ram in, how many years has it been since 512mb was the stock config of dell and the like

18th Apr 2007, 06:03	#1
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