This is my memory also. Manufacturers were saying that no one wanted the low powered machines... It wasn't until OLPC was able to sell some of theirs with the b

This is my memory also. Manufacturers were saying that no one wanted the low powered machines... It wasn't until OLPC was able to sell some of theirs with the buy 1 get 1 and the EEEPC (I own a first generation 7 incher) went on sail and people snapped them up so quickly that I had to stalk the local micro center to get the wife one for christmas... Did the other manufacturers think there might be a market for this. Now we can get a 1.6 Ghz laptop with wifi + camera +windows XP for under 200$ (Saw the Acer netbook for 189 the other day!). Frankly, while they were never able to hit their 100$ sweet spot I think the OLPC project has been a massive success. Heck, we may even be able to attribute the push for the cloud... and cloud based applications running in a browser... to the low powered laptop movement started by the OLPC project.