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Intel-Powered Classmate PC for children’s education
By webmaster | April 5, 2008
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, unveiled a new design of the Intel-powered classmate PC at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai (China) with a vision of supporting the IT industry in spreading the benefits of technology in education for children around the world.
According to the Company’s Vice-President Andrew Chien the second-generation Intel-powered classmate PC is an affordable, fully functional, rugged Internet-centric computer platform. Intel has termed this type of computers has “netbooks”. The classmate PC is built on Intel Celeron M processor with 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and mesh network capabilities. The top range of these netbooks includes a 9-inch LCD screen, 6-cell battery life, 512 MB memory, a 30 GB HDD (hard disk drive) storage and an integrated webcam. It will support Windows XP and Linux.
The forum members included many hardware and software vendor, content providers, educational services providers and local OEMs who have been working with Intel to develop a complete infrastructure that will support the Intel-powered classmate PC.
It is true that most of the children around the world fail to get such high tech products due to financial constraints but an initiative like this one would surely make them to cope up with the technological world and also foster a better education.
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