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Does Foleo really compete in this segment? Because to do so it would have to be a general purpose device, much like a standard notebook.

But the foleo seems to be a special purpose tool, in that it can do only some things well and is generally aimed at corporate executives who own a Treo.

Yup, and Intel was one of the main detractors of the OLPC project. But look at 'em now.

do people still use fortran on windows?

People use whatever tools they are comfortable with.

Even if you develop on Windows, it doesn't mean Windows is the end target environment. So you could develop and debug your Fortran in Visual Studio (with Intel tools) and move it onto whatever platform you want to run it on, be it a Linux cluster or Windows compute cluster or whatever.

So yes, I'd say people do use Fortran on Windows still.

Are you asking about the usage of Fortran in general or the usage of Fortran in Windows?

Because if your question lies in the former category, then the answer is yes. Fortran is still used largely by physicists for their scientific computations.

I don't know. I don't see what Intel and Asus want to do here. If they would want to help the children, they would support the OLPC project. Now they're introducing competition, which will only lower the amount of laptops the OLPC project can build, thus increasing the price. Not a good thing. These laptops are indeed more powerfull, but to what advantage for the children? It's not like it'll make a diff for them to have a faster proc. It's far more important to have everything work.

Again, I don't understand why Intel wants to do this. Margins in this market will be extremely low, they even have to sell these laptops below costs. Is it marketing? Hate for AMD? Certainly, the children won't win. The cheapest laptop (OLPC) will be more expensive, and there will be even less cheap pc's to choose from - which doesn't make much sense anyway. Esp considering the OLPC at least is BUILD for children and the environment they live in. This laptop isn't as rugged. This laptop isn't as safe. This laptop isn't as low-power. This laptop isn't as easy to use. And it is more expensive.

I think intel is doing a bad thing, and I can only guess for their reasons behind it.

The children won't win? Are you kidding me? Intel will compete and the children will get even better stuff in the end. Competition always makes things better. Always.

Please leave your politics are the door.

I love competition, sure. But this is a non-for-profit game. Competition is good because it forces companies to do the best for the customer instead of for the stockholder (actually, it would be even more accurate to say it aligns the interests of stakeholders). In this situation, competition would be bad, as such a force is not needed - we're doing this for the kids. We need cooperation.

Sure, old charities sometimes need a kick in the butt, because they lost sight of their purpose. But I don't think you can argue that in this situation, if you've ever spoken to one of the volunteers.

Fair competition does.
Marketing bullshit and unfulfilled promises do not.

OLPC's goal is to help educate and inform children around the world.
Intel's goal is to make money, more money, and even more money.
And the second one clearly conflicts with the first one.

A perfect little messaging / note taking / chatting device - doesn't have to be fast at all.. a single core low power celeron or p-m would deliver

P-M? =))))
Z80 should be enough.