Intel introduces PC for education market


Intel Corporation yesterday unveiled a new version of its classmate PC for global education market Showcasing the second-generation classmate PC Intel research director Andrew Chien told delegates that the portable computers termed netbooks were built on rugged Internet-centric platform, with wireless capability, longer battery life, water-resistant keyboards and are more shock resistant.

'The new version has been designed to enable manufacturers to make netbooks suited for diverse education needs of parents, teachers and students,' Andrew said. The Intel-powered classmate PC supports Microsoft Windows XP and variants of the Linux operating environment. Classmate PC has a nine-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) screen, 512 megabyte (MB) memory, a 30 gigabyte (GB) HDD (hard disk drive) storage and an integrated webcam.

“About 80 software and hardware vendors, content providers, educational services providers and local OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) are working with us to develop a new infrastructure that supports the classmate PC. We also plan to build the future classmate PCs with Atom processor, the energy-efficient, low-cost chip designed for small mobile computing devices,” Andrew affirmed.

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