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Intel Classmate PCs Head to Portugal

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2008-07-30

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Intel's Classmate PC = notebook,=20 which competes with the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) XO = laptop,=20 is getting a big boost after Portugal contracts to = purchase=20 500,000 of these Intel laptops for = students.

Intel is poised to announce an agreement with = Portugal that=20 will bring 500,000 of the Intel-designed Classmate PC notebooks = into the=20 hands of thousands of elementary school = children.

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett and Portuguese Prime = Minister=20 Jos=E9 S=F3crates are expected to announce the = agreement July 30=20 in Lisbon. The Classmate PC laptops will be = distributed as=20 part of Portugal's Magellan Initiative, which looks to = bring=20 more technology into the classroom.

For Intel, the agreement with the Portuguese = government=20 represents one of the largest deployments of its = Classmate PC=20 design. The notebooks destined for Portugal are = manufactured=20 by ECS, which is based in Taiwan, and also by JP S=E1 = Couto, a=20 local Portuguese manufacturer.

The Classmate PC is Intel's own version of the = low-cost=20 laptop. Since the start of 2008, OEMs from = Hewlett-Packard to=20 Acer have been trying to duplicate the marketing = success that=20 Asus has enjoyed with the launch of its low-cost Eee = PC, which=20 is designed for children and adults in emerging = markets. In=20 addition to the Classmate, Intel has also designed a version of = its new Atom=20 processor to specifically work with this new = category of=20 low-cost laptops that the chip maker has called=20 "netbooks."

The fact that Intel is rushing into the education = market=20 means that the company is also looking to square off = against=20 the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project and its = laptop=20 called the XO. Earlier this year, Intel broke with the OLPC project = after a=20 series of disagreements and forged ahead with its = Classmate=20 design, which costs between $250 and $300.

"Intel broke with OLPC. They have made it pretty = clear that=20 they are going after the same market, and it looks as = if they=20 are using some of the same tactics, and I think it's = purely=20 competitive," said Roger Kay, president of Endpoint=20 Technologies Associates.

Since the Classmate is more of a design than an = actual=20 product, it provides both a way to supply low-cost PCs = and=20 give local manufacturers, as well as Intel, a way to = make a=20 profit. Intel did not disclose what each Classmate PC = laptop=20 cost for the deployment in Portugal.

"Intel, on the other hand, is reliably = businesslike," said=20 Kay. "They want to sell processors. It's clear what = their=20 motive is, and they are really good at it."

The first round of the Classmate PC laptops for = Portugal=20 will use Intel's older Celeron processor before = switching to a=20 new batch manufactured with the newer Atom = chip,=20 said Lila Ibrahim, general manager of the Intel's = Emerging=20 Markets Platform Group.

The newer Classmate PC design also allows for a = number of=20 extras that were unavailable in the older designs, = such as=20 hard disk drives with a 30GB capacity. Other features = include=20 more RAM=97512MB compared with the previous 256MB in = the older=20 models=97and it will support Microsoft Windows, as = well as the=20 Metasys and Ubuntu Linux operating systems.

The Classmate also now offers a 9-inch display, = compared=20 with the older 7-inch display model.

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