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engadget.com - 10/30/2008

Asus, Intel launch WePC website, ask community to design PCs for them

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True power is derived from the people, yes? Asus and Intel know this well, so they've launched a website called WePC, where users can draw up concepts and specs for new netbook and notebook models then argue about how fantastic or utterly impractical they are. In a sense cooperative laptop ...

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Will the WePC be a Horse or a Camel?
LIVEdigitally — ... Community-powered development and brainstorming is an interesting challenge.  On one hand, you get exposure to more ideas and concepts than you can possibly get from an individual or small team.  On the other hand, the signal-to-noise ratio rapidly gets out of control, and depending on the level of empowerment, you get clumsy, hard-to-use, yet feature-rich products.  When I read about the WePC concept from Intel and ASUS, I started pondering what wisdom the crowds have to offer (thanks to BrianB for the image suggestion). ...