Talk:Eduwise

The article, as I found it, seemed to have been cut and pasted from the Intel website, so I rewrote it all and have tried to provide references. I am not an expert in Wikipedia formatting so if someone could fix the references that would be really good.

There may well be a notability problem here. The OLPC project spent tens of millions on R&D and made a new operating system and set of applications, as well as inventing a new screen, a new wireless card and so on. This however, is a small laptop with a tiny screen. Its blue, but it is just a standard laptop.

So it may be worth merging this article into the Children's Machine article and having it under a section about "Other Developing World Educational Laptops".

Best Wishes User:Zeth 02:22, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi,

I am the original author of the Eduwise page. I agree the text was not very original. However, I disagree with merging the article with Chidren's Machine because its two different products.

--Kozuch 14:26, 2 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I also disagree with the merge, two completely different products. --69.136.111.100 23:51, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Differences to the OLPC
This laptop is designed for 1st world countries rather than developing nations so there's a different design approach (900mhz celeron compared to a 350mhz geode), it uses windows rather than a custom linux based OS so it's more in tune with common PCs. It's also worth noting that the OLPC will only cost slightly less for western customers due to the policy of using machines in sold in the west to fund the project elsewhere.

Unless the low cost ultraportables become common in which case the eduwise and the OLPC should be grouped together, I believe there is a big enough difference in their approach for these topics to remain seperate. Abigsmurf 14:33, 8 January 2007 (UTC)