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USA Today: Brazil to Test $400 Intel Laptop in Schools, Competing with MIT Spinoff’s Computers

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 7, 2006

“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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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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