S Chauhan: You are being short-sighted. If the goal is to run Windows, perhaps the EEE is better. If your goal is to help children in underdeveloped areas, the OLPC is far superior to a price-reduced Wintel box. You probably haven't looked enough at what OLPC is doing and so have an incorrect idea of it. They have built a tool for enabling education in difficult conditions, not a traditional PC. BIG difference. 

And to the other two commenters: You are wrong, too. You seem not to understand what the OLPC project actually is doing.

The effort by Microsoft to put Windows on the OLPC is probably the Embrace stage of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. The OLPC project should be VERY careful of any interaction with Microsoft.

The main (only) advantage the EEE has over the OLPC is its available now. And perhaps that it's got a stronger CPU.

While all the high flying rhetoric is great the best U.N. initiative would have been the One Meal Per Child Per Day. Of course if you feed the bastards today they're hungry again tomorrow. Give them an OLPC and they're good for a lifetime (especially if that life is shortened by starvation and malnutrition).

Interesting, Since when do charitys worry about competition? or is when charitys compete with legitamate busineses like Intel and Asus? hmmmmmmm and all under the guise of helping the poor kids!!