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Commentary: Will low-cost OLPC or Eee PCs bring changes to the notebook industry ecosystem?

Bill Kao, Taipei; Steve Shen, DIGITIMES Asia Tuesday 2 October 2007 1

The low-cost Eee PCs from Asustek Computer have made headlines recently and drawn the attention of industry insiders as well as the media. But the notebook industry has generally looked down on the potential of OLPC's (one laptop per child) XO notebooks,...

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