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CES 2012: CTL Debuts Two New Intel Cedar Trail-Powered Classmate PCs

CTL hasn’t announced any new Classmate computers for quite a while now, but at this year’s CES fair the company returns to the education market with a pair of new child friendly devices based on Intel’s new Cedar Trail platform. Specs wise, the two CTL systems are almost identical, but use differen...

13 January 2012
14:41 GMT

Intel Classmate PCs Get Better with New Atoms

Since Intel now has a new line of Atom central processing units, it makes sense that it would upgrade all product lines that rely on such chips. The latest batch of notebooks to be updated is a certain educational line aptly named Classmate PC. Essentially, it is composed of clamshell and convertible platforms, n...

11 January 2012
09:57 GMT

2go 10.1" Classmate PC E11 Ruggedized Netbook Introduced by CTL

CTL, the company manufacturing the Classmate PC, the netbook targeting specifically the educational segment in developing countries, has decided that rolling out a ruggedized version of their Intel-based netbook might be a good idea (especially for certain areas around the world), and thus officially unveiled their C...

17 December 2010
14:41 GMT

Intel Refines the Design of Its Classmate PC Netbook

Intel is definitely keeping itself busy at IDF, unveiling not just CPUs and motherboards, but also new designs for products that already exist, as is the case with the Classmate PC netbook, which has just received a new clamshell design.Netbooks, for the most part, are meant as secondary mobile computers for the ent...

15 September 2010
07:04 GMT

Toshiba Intel Classmate Tablet PC Heads to Japan

Ever since Apple launched its controversial media tablet known as iPad, slates practically became synonymous with the idea of an entertainment device. And yet, industrial, professional and educational tablet PCs have existed since long before the media tablet even rose to fame. This is exactly what Toshiba, now part...

1 July 2010
09:41 GMT

Intel to Showcase Convertible Classmate PC at CES 2009

The upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, due to debut in early January 2009, is believed to be the place where a number of netbook vendors will finally showcase their latest products. Some of these, it is said, will provide users with a touchscreen experience, inside a small-form factor portable PC, such as a netbook....

16 December 2008
06:25 GMT

U.S. Amazon to Sell OLPC XO Laptops

The One Laptop Per Child’s (OLPC) XO mobile PC will begin to be sold on Amazon starting November 17th. According to Amazon, the XO laptop will be available in the same manner as its previous Give One, Get One (G1G1) program, which will allow customers to spend $400 for two laptops, one of which g...

12 November 2008
06:36 GMT

Quanta Will Make Rotating Touch-Screen Classmate PCs

The latest news on Intel's next-generation Classmate PC, a machine designed specifically for the developing markets, says that it will come with a rotating touch-screen panel. The same reports also have it that the touch-screen panels will be manufactured by the world’s largest contract maker of notebooks,...

24 October 2008
02:12 GMT

Venezuela Lands 1 Million Intel Classmate PCs Order

Intel's Classmate PC appears to gain more popularity, as the government of Venezuela has recently announced that it plans to order more than one million of these low-cost portable computer systems, as part of a broader economic agreement between Venezuela and Portugal. According to said agreement, Portugal will ...

30 September 2008
08:30 GMT

Intel Will Provide 500,000 Classmate Laptops to Portugal

Intel managed to ink a large low-cost laptop deal with Portugal's government to deliver 500,000 units of the company's Classmate PC for primary school pupils. The notebooks will be manufactured in northern Portugal and Intel expects them to be shipped during the upcoming school year. The delivery of the hal...

31 July 2008
05:55 GMT

The Classmate PC to Get the Third Iteration

According to recent rumors on the PC area, Intel is on its way to serve us yet another generation of its already famous Classmate PC. It seems that the company is readying the third iteration of the netbook, one that will probably line-up with famous machines of the industry like the Eee PC or the Wind netbook. The o...

31 July 2008
03:16 GMT

Intel Unveils New Line of Low-Cost Notebooks

Intel has once again picked up the hatchet against its small-scale rival One Laptop Per Child charity foundation by releasing into the wild a refurbished version of the Classmate PC. The update adds bigger screens and larger storage capacity to the company's educational notebook.The new Classmate PC will hit the...

3 April 2008
16:51 GMT

Intel's Classmate Goes to Philippine as Neo Explore

Philippine PC vendor Neo has recently launched its first Netbook PC powered by an Intel processor. Just like its older Classmate PC sibling, the Neo Explore X-1, the new sub-notebook is primarily aimed at the educational market, and comes as an affordable solution to unlock new possibilities in the learning process....

31 March 2008
19:51 GMT

FTEC's Notebook Might Be the Next Version of Intel's Classmate PC

FTEC's SmartBook educational sub-notebook is reportedly one and the same with Intel's next generation of Classmate notebook PC targeted at the educational market. The computer has been unveiled earlier this week by the Malaysia-based FTEC computers, after a series of rumors that used to call it the 2Go / Ec...

28 March 2008
10:08 GMT

Intel Will Pour Yet Another $Billion Into the Indian Economy

Chip manufacturer Intel has announced that it will invest ove4r $1 billion in India during the next three years. Intel is willing to manufacture here its low-cost personal computers in a joint-venture with Indian and offshore hardware companies."We have committed to spend over a billion dollars spread over next three...

6 February 2008
10:50 GMT

The OLPC Donors Get Angry With Their Missing Laptops

Although the "Give One, Get One" program has been launched back in November last year, many of the donors are reporting that there are serious shipping issues. The "Give One, Get One" program entitled donors to obtain a XO sub-notebook for $399 (the cost of two sub-notebooks). The program had some issues since it fir...

25 January 2008
11:35 GMT

HCL MiLeap X, Y Series Low-Cost Notebooks Detailed

HCL Infosystems, an India-based PC vendor, has launched two more low-cost sub-notebooks targeted at the Indian market. The MiLeap X and Y Series are 7-inch models that offer the same functionality as a regular PC, but in a small form factor. The MiLeap X is built on Intel's Classmate PC architecture and inherits...

22 January 2008
04:06 GMT

Intel's Classmate Hammers Another Nail Into OLPC's Coffin

Intel and Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child foundation have been allies, but never managed to become friends. This is quite understandable, since both products are struggling for supremacy on the educational market. Moreover, OLPC's decision of using AMD Geode processors for its XO sub-notebook enlarged the...

21 January 2008
02:52 GMT

Intel and OLPC: The Hardware Soap Opera

The OLPC initiative seems to be in the spotlight lately, following the organization's conflict with chip manufacturer Intel. A few days after Intel waved goodbye at the ex-partner OLPC, the foundation's founder Nicholas Negroponte changed his mind and reached out to Intel, in what seems to be a true hardwar...

10 January 2008
10:55 GMT

Intel to Introduce the Silverthorne Processor to the Classmate PC

A week after having parted ways with Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC, Intel announced an updated version of their Classmate sub-notebook, targeted at the third-world school children. The refurbished Classmate PC will be based on the upcoming Silverthorne processor aimed at ultramobile PCs and mobile Internet devices....

9 January 2008
08:28 GMT

Masi Oka, Hiro Nakamura from "Heroes", Becomes OLPC Ambassador

Nicolas Negroponte's OLPC initiative has encountered some pretty big problems lately, due to the fact the proposed $100 price tag will most likely turn into a $200, not to mention the fact that Intel's Classmate PC seems to be a lot more popular in the developing countries than its OLCP counterpart. And in ...

2 November 2007
14:06 GMT

Intel Gets The Boot: XO Beats The Classmate PC

The One Laptop Per Child, OLPC for short, has been mulling over its super cheap, uber cool laptop for a number of years now and after a number of setbacks and near total failures alongside with many price tag boosts and other problems, things are finally looking brighter for the outfit led by Nicholas Negromponte.Th...

6 October 2007
08:05 GMT

Intel Launches Classmate PC

Part of an ongoing program, through which Intel is trying to give something back to the needy and the poor, has led to the development of Intel powered Classmate PCs. This initiative, called "Intel World Ahead Program", was originally announced in May 2006. At the Intel Developer Forum held in San Francisco, Intel�...

23 March 2007
04:44 GMT


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