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Classmate PC

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Classmate PC
Classmate PC
Type Subnotebook/Netbook
Developer OEM
Memory 256MB of DDR2 RAM
Media 2GB NAND flash memory
Display 7 inch diagonal LCD
800 x 480
Power 6-cell Li-ion battery
Input Keyboard
Touchpad
Connectivity 10/100M Ethernet
WLAN 802.11b/g
Operating system Mandriva Linux Discovery 2007
Metasys Classmate 2.0
Rxart
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Home Edition

The Classmate PC, formerly known as Eduwise, is Intel's entry into the market for low-cost personal computers for children in the developing world. It is in some respects similar to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) trade association's Children's Machine (XO), which has a similar target market. Although definitely made for profit, the laptop production is believed to be an Information and Communication Technologies for Development project. The device may fall into a newly defined category of Netbooks.

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[edit] Intel World Ahead Program

Intel’s World Ahead Program was established May 2006. Intel began this program and designed a platform for low cost laptops that third party manufacturers could use to produce low cost machines under their own respective brands.

The World Ahead program's public spokesman is Craig Barrett, Chairman of the Board of Intel. The Classmate PC is a reference design by Intel. Intel will not build the subnotebooks, but will instead build the chips that power them. The reference design is then used by OEMs worldwide to build their own branded Classmate PC.

[edit] Technology

[edit] Hardware

The reference hardware specifications as of September 28th 2006 are:

A second generation Classmate was unveiled on 3 April 2008 at Intel's Developer Forum. Significant upgrades include:

  • Available 30GB PATA hard drive (in addition to 1, 2, and 4GB SSD)
  • Built-in webcam
  • Available 9" LCD (the 7" LCD is still available)
  • Up to 512MB RAM
  • 802.11s (mesh networking, currently only usable on Linux-based Classmates)
  • Available 6-cell battery for up to 5 hours usage
  • Additional images, specifications, and video are available at "ZDNet Education"

[edit] Software

Intel announced that its device would run either Linux or Windows XP Professional. Intel is not using Windows XP Embedded as initially planned. Intel has been actively working with various international and local Linux distributions in various countries.

Intel has worked with Mandriva to customize their Linux distribution for Classmate PC. [1][2]

Currently the Intel powered classmate PC has been shown to run the following Linux distributions:

[edit] Current sales

[edit] Latin America

Contingent upon the receipt of sufficient international fund monies, Mexican and the Brazilian government are evaluating whether to buy Intel's or the OLPC's laptop.[3] Regardless of the hardware chosen, the Brazilian government announced that it would use the Linux operating system.[4] It has been confirmed that Intel will be shipping the Laptops with Mandriva Linux, Discovery 2007 edition[5] as well as the Classmate 2.0 Linux distribution by the Brazilian company Metasys.

Oscar Clarke, President of Intel of Brasil, delivered thirty production units to the Brasilian Ministry of Education (MEC), for evaluation by SERPRO (Federal Data Processing Service of Brazil).[citation needed]

It's currently available in Argentina to buy it online through the EXO site

[edit] Africa

Intel has also started shipping to Libya as part of its deal of supplying 150,000 units.[6]

[edit] Asia

It's also currently available in Indonesia starting early March 2008, through two local brands: Axioo and Zyrex. The Zyrex brand, called Anoa, is Classmate PC equipped with Intel ULV 900 MHz (400 MHz FSB) processor, 512 MB RAM, 2GB SSD, WiFi, LAN, 7 inch screen, 2 USB ports, card reader. Both brands of Classmate PC is sold at about Rp3 to Rp4 million (about US$300 to US$400). The Classmate PC is available in Linux or Windows XP operating system, with the XP sold at a slightly higher price, of additional US$30 to US$80.

It's currently available in India as HCL Infosystems Mileap-X series. This comes with Edubuntu pre-installed. The price is INR 13,990.

In late 2007 a deal was made with Vietnamese government to supply local schools with a special Classmate PC for discounted price. As this version is loaded with Hacao Linux the government was able to save about $35/PCs for Windows licence fees resulting in end price about $250/machine.[7]

[edit] Europe and USA

The second generation of the device will be available in Europe and USA in the hope that more sales will drive down the price.[8]

Classmate PC is announced to be available from CMS Computers in the United Kingdom for European customers and from Coastline Micro for US customers.

On the 20th of May in 2008 Italian company Olidata announced the commercialisation of a modded version of Classmate PC naming Jumpc. This version is now selling in Italy, but for the end of the year it will be available in the most important country of Europe. The price is EUR 299,00.

[edit] Comparisons with OLPC project

The goals of the Classmate PC project and the OLPC project have some differences. The Classmate PC aims to provide technology that fits into the larger, primarily Windows-based computing environment.[9] Users in this environment learn about the technologies that currently dominate the computer world, but have the risk of vendor lock-in and lose flexibility by using proprietary and closed-source software. On the other hand, XO aims to provide children with a free and open-source software environment they can modify for themselves at no additional cost and that allows them to "learn through doing".[10]

Mary Lou Jepsen, the founding Chief Technology Officer of One Laptop Per Child compares OLPC's XO-1 to the Classmate in an interview at Groklaw:

"Classmate is more expensive, consumes 10 times the power, has 1/3 the wifi range, and can't be used outside. Also, the Classmate doesn't use neighboring laptops to extend the reach of the internet via hopping (mesh-networking) like the XO does. So not only is the XO cheaper than the Classmate, the XO requires less infrastructure expenditure for electricity and for internet access. In Peru we can run off of solar during the day and handcrank at night for an additional $25 or so per student – this is one-time expense – the solar panel and the crank will last 10 or perhaps 20 years. Just try running electricity cables up and down the Peruvian Andes for that cost while making sure it's environmentally clean energy. The Classmate isn't as durable as the XO, and its screen is about 30% smaller, the batteries are the type that can explode and only last 1–2 years and can't be removed by the user and harm the environment. The batteries are expensive to replace: $30–40 per replacement. The XO batteries last for 5 years and cost less than $10 to replace. Finally, the XO is the greenest laptop ever made, the Classmate isn't – this matters a great deal when one proposes to put millions of them in the developing world."

As of May 2008, the power technologies mentioned here are not available outside of limited tests.

Whilst the OLPC project aimed to redesign all of the software and hardware along educational principles and uses highly customized hardware and software, Intel has argued that the developing world wants to have generic PCs. In December 2005, Intel publicly dismissed the XO as a 'gadget'.[11]

Intel later joined the OLPC in July 2007 and was widely expected to work on a version of the project's laptop that used an Intel chip, only to pull out of the project in January 2008. Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said it had pulled out because the OLPC organization had asked it to stop backing rival low-cost laptops[12][13], while OLPCs founder Nicholas Negroponte has accused Intel of underhand sales tactics and trying to block contracts to buy his machines[14].

[edit] Technical comparison

Classmate PC OLPC XO-1
Processor Intel Celeron M AMD Geode
Display 800x600 7-inch color LCD[15] low-power, 800×600 (color mode), 1200×900 (black and white mode) 7.5-inch LCD[16]
Operating System Mandriva Linux Discovery 2007,
Metasys Classmate 2.0
or Windows XP Professional[17]
customized version of Fedora Linux with a GUI named Sugar or Microsoft Windows [18]

[edit] Media appearance

[edit] Classmate 2

The successor of original Classmate design was announced in April 2008.[19]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

[edit] News articles (by date)

[edit] Multimedia


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