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:USA Today: Brazil to Test $400 Intel Laptop in Schools, Competing with MIT Spinoff's Computers
USA Today: Brazil to Test $400 Intel Laptop in Schools, Competing with MIT Spinoff's Computers
Dec 7, 2006, 13 :45 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (8258 reads)

(Other stories by Alan Clendenning)

"Intel said Tuesday its diminutive low-cost laptop will be evaluated in Brazil next year alongside a cheaper alternative from a non-profit group seeking to bring computers to poor children worldwide.

"The company said it would donate 700 to 800 of the $400 'Classmate PCs' to the government for a large evaluation in schools. Intel has already tested the computers on a smaller scale with students and teachers in a poor neighborhood of Campinas, near Sao Paulo..."

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"One Laptop Per Child expects to sell se ...   Thailand bowed out   
Steve Stites
Dec 6, 2006, 17:18:28
 
Unlike the OLPC, Intel's classmate P ...   TPM   
untrusted
Dec 6, 2006, 17:49:29
 
The OLPC computer is targeted at the $10 ...   Competing? Like BMW and Vespa?   
david
Dec 7, 2006, 16:12:09
 
Think of the money those countries could ...   Walmart $299...   
Valued Customer
Dec 7, 2006, 21:52:45
 
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