Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 25th May 2007 16:56 UTC, submitted by FreeRhino
"Some say the Classmate PC is Intel's answer to (or competition with) the One Laptop per Child effort. Intel is hawking the lilliputian laptop in 'emerging markets' like Nigeria, India, and Mexico as a solution for worldwide education of primary and secondary students. It's to be officially released and shipped en masse to schools in Africa and South and Central America by the end of June. Recently my children and I borrowed a Classmate PC loaded with a custom version of Mandriva Linux. Most of us had fun."
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2007-05-08
for an entry student machine imho. They are both full capable workstation after all. Few years ago we had been running desktops with such specs...
Do you remember things like Logo or build in Basic interpreters? Build in an editor, a calculator, a simple hardware to be able comprehended and programmed by a single individual at hardware level?
It's mistake to thing a someone starting with a computer needs even a wimpy 900MHz CPU and 256MB of ram. At those machines cost way too much to be affordable for really rural regions.