Tuesday, March 20th 2007
Intel Classmate PC designed as cheap laptop for young students in low-tech countries
Most of you have probably heard of the One Laptop Per Child, or OLPC for short, project. The project aims to provide a large quantity of low price laptops for low-tech countries. Intel decided that they want a peace of the action, and hence made the Classmate PC. Their cheap family-oriented laptop uses a 900MHz Celeron M, is based off of an Intel chipset, has 256MB of RAM, and 2GB of NAND flash storage. The operating system can be either a copy of Linux, or Windows XP. This hardware is noticeably better than the OLPC laptop, which features an AMD Geode processor, however at a significant price increase. The Classmate PC can cost up to $500 USD, which would make some retail solutions a bit cheaper (and even more powerful). Regardless, Intel has a customer for this laptop...Chile.
Source:
Nordic Hardware
10 Comments on Intel Classmate PC designed as cheap laptop for young students in low-tech countries
imo they should solve out places like Africa and other places where people dont even have acess to clean water.
Its waterAid week btw :)
guess these under-priveliged/poverty ridden kids would need a laptop/pc to buy one like that off ebay anyway. :wtf:
forget trying to get them hooked up on the net and put the $ into helping build communitys where these people can thrive and build a future for themselves.
EDIT: I dont even have one so I might get one. Looks rugged.