Tag: Education Notebooks
School Districts in 41 States Using Google’s Chromebooks in the Classroom
Google’s Chromebooks may not have been a hit with the tech reviewers who dismissed the very idea of laptops that only work completely when connected to the Internet. That didn’t stop the notebooks from becoming a favorite for certain consumers. And they’re fun on a Virgin America flight (when the in-flight Wi-Fi works). Another area [...]
Educated Macbooks Get a Limited Time Price Cut
Educators are known to get a price break on hardware and software from time to time. It’s a nice benefit for those people who work tirelessly to educate our children. This time, the price break is from those folks at Apple. Apple is known for giving great deals to educators and students, from software discounts [...]
First One Laptop Per Child PCs Coming This Year
It seems like Negorponte and co. have been working forever on the One Laptop Per Child project forever, but their hard work is about to pay off. The first $100-ish laptops will roll off the assembly line late this year, with production getting into full swing early in 2007. Quanta, a Taiwanese manufacturer, will build [...]
The Classmate PC Notebook
The Classmate PC is a $250 to $400 notebook for students in emerging countries, and Intelâ€â„¢s answer to the OLPC project. The Classmate PC runs Windows XP and is powered by an Intel Celeron M processor, 256MB of memory and feature at least 1GB of flash memory in lieu of a hard disk. The machine [...]
