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Portugal buys 500,000 cheap Intel PCs

by on31 July 2008

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Classmates


Portugal's
government has just bought more than 500,000 cut price PCs from Intel.

The Classmate PCs, which are rivals to the One Laptop Per Child organization project, will be given to elementary school students. The single deal is for half a million PCs, Intel nearly matched OLPC's total orders to date, which is about 622,000 laptops.

As part of the deal Intel said it will serve as technology adviser to Portugal's Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Communications. Parents of young schoolchildren will be able to choose between computers running Windows or Linux and the government will distribute the machines to Portugal's elementary school students over the course of the 2008-2009 school year.

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Last modified on 31 July 2008
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