Anyone want a ‘Classmate’?

By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net

INTEL is donating specially designed “Classmate PCs” to at least 15 public schools in the Philippines. The Classmate PC, Intel said, is meant for use by Kindergarten to Grade 12 students.

A Classmate PC shown to journalists was equipped with an Intel Celeron processor with 1GB of flash memory instead of a hard drive. It comes with a blue leather-like casing that resembles an ordinary lunch box. It runs Windows XP (with basic Microsoft Office applications like Word) and carries specially designed e-learning software.

Intel gave away 50 Classmate PCs to an elementary school in Muntinlupa City during a visit Wednesday by Intel executives Sean Maloney and John Antone.

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