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* Claim: $100 per unit (unassembled components, no OS), with liberal<br>
dissing of OLPC in the communications.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Interesting. This could be a win for Sugar Labs, at least to some extent. I wonder if those govts would consider Sugar on those PCs...</div><div>
<br></div><div>This sub-netbook is pretty stock standard. It doesn&#39;t seem to have a lot of the neat features of the XO. The XO-2 will be even further removed, e.g. no keyboard.</div><div><br></div><div>There are already competitors in this space of providing low powered sub-notebooks that people are used to (See a micro-post I wrote about the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=95298371901&amp;share_id=122403471997&amp;comments=1#s122403471997">Gecko</a>)</div>
<div><br></div><div>These products could be seen as complementary to Sugar, but they do appear to erode the sway of the XO.</div><div><br></div></div>