PJ@Groklaw: "The Classmate looks to me to be just another laptop, only smaller and cheesier looking, with a too small screen (it has a resizing feature, so you

PJ@Groklaw: "The Classmate looks to me to be just another laptop, only smaller and cheesier looking, with a too small screen (it has a resizing feature, so you can cram a normal amount of a page on it, which I'm guessing people leave on all the time) and nothing a child would particularly enjoy by my reckoning, other than the fact that any laptop is better than none, except the digital pen, which is an optional addon, and I'm guessing those pens disappear or get lost in no time. And indeed Intel doesn't market Classmate as something kids will love. They market it as a laptop teachers and parents will find reassuring, because it gives them the illusion of control. Now that's significant. I just learned something about marketing. It's about dreams, not about reality." That was what bothered me about the criticisms of lack of teacher training for the XO. It was not meant to be used by the teachers. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071125113058548 http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071125113058548 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84054 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84054