The Venezuelan government has signed an agreement with Portugal that will bring one million low-cost notebooks, which are based on the Intel Classmate PC design, to the South American country. In July, Portugal signed an agreement with Intel to bring 500,000 Classmate PCs to that country and now the Portuguese OEM manufacturing those laptops will supply these Intel Atom-based laptops to Venezuela.
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Venezuela
has signed an agreement with Portugal
that will allow the South American country to buy one million low-cost Intel
Classmate PC notebooks from a Portuguese manufacturer.
The agreement between Intel and the governments of Venezuela
and Portugal
now represents the largest deployment …

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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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