The dreams of OLPC project organizers about student notebook which cost $100 are far distant from the full-scale realization. However, precisely this device in its time became the forerunner of netbook appearance, which left for the consumer market without any charitable mission. Intel company in those times proposed its prototype of student notebook : classmate PC, which was more expensive than OLPC creation , but it possessed higher performance and developed functionality.
Associate reports that the governments of developing countries stopped the order of classmate PC notebook . The contract producers of these notebooks ECS and Quanta computer asserts that from the reduction in the demand for Classmate PC will not suffer, since the orders volumes and profit rate are small.
It is easy to explain the reasons for such phenomen. First, developing countries threw all forces to the fight with the crisis, educational programs are against this background financed weakly. In the second place, the infrastructure development rates in these countries are sufficiently low, and contemporary notebook intended to young user, is complicated to represent without access to Internet. Intel refused to comment this situation , but it reported that it continues to work with the producers at the improvement Of classmate PC and its adaptation to the specific character of regional markets.