Paul Taylor , Wednesday 24 September 2008. 12:50:00
Ministerial posse hands out the Celery
WITH THE BEGINNING of the new school year the Portuguese PM, José Socrates, and a posse of ministers-in-waiting handed out 3,000 new Classmate PCs to eagerly waiting kiddies. This is the first batch of the 500,000 machines expected to be delivered over a three-year period. Delivering on a promise made just a couple of months ago, first- through fourth-graders throughout Portugal received yesterday the new lappies for next to nothing (€50) or for free in the case of low-income families. The Magalhães is a second generation Classmate PC, based on the Celeron 900 unit, rather than the recently launched Atom-based Classmate PC….
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Paul Taylor the Inquirer, Wednesday 24 September 2008. 12:50:00
Ministerial posse hands out the Celery
WITH THE BEGINNING of the new school year the Portuguese PM, José Socrates, and a posse of ministers-in-waiting handed out 3,000 new Classmate PCs to eagerly waiting kiddies. This is the first batch of the 500,000 machines expected to be delivered over a three-year period. Delivering on a promise made just a couple of months ago, first- through fourth-graders throughout Portugal received yesterday the new lappies for next to nothing (€50) or for free in the case of low-income families. The Magalhães is a second generation Classmate PC, based on the Celeron 900 unit, rather than the recently launched Atom-based Classmate PC….
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The Magellan computers will be assembled in Portugal but are based on Intel’s low-cost Classmate PC and will use Intel processors. The ultracheap laptops will be offered to schools in Portugal at a price of 50 euros.
- LISBON (Reuters) Portugal’s
Socialist government began the roll-out on Tuesday of 500,000 ultra-cheap
laptops for school children in a programme that could be extended to Venezuela,
the government said.
The computers called ‘Magellan’ after the
16th-century Portuguese explorer will use Intel pr…
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