Three simple laptop PCs

The “One Laptop Per Child” initiative, or OLPC, champions the idea of creating inexpensive, simple laptop computers for children all over the world. These PCs are now shipping:

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OLPC has a great website here:

One Laptop Per Child

OLPC created so much media interest that it attracted the attention of the big fish, who did not want to lose out on the sales (and brand awareness) of millions of laptops. So Microsoft and Intel created their own cheap laptop called Classmate and it is now shipping as well:

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You can learn more about the Classmate PC here:

Classmate PC Portal

And now ASUS has a simplified PC called the Eee. It is more expensive, but shares many of the attributes of the other two. For example, it runs a simplified user interface on top of Linux, it replaces the hard drive with a 4GB flash drive to make the laptop more rugged, etc.

You can learn more about the Eee PC here:

Eee PC 4GB

You can buy one here:

ASUS Eee PC 4G

For more info see: How Laptops Work