How do the three leading education-oriented ultraportable notebooks stack up? Take our visual tour to find out.
Small and inexpensive notebooks designed primarily for schoolchildren -- particularly in developing countries -- have been a hot topic ever since Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project began in 2005. Production XO laptops (above, left) became available in November 2007.
OLPC is a not-for-profit organisation, whereas Intel, which notoriously joined and then exited the OLPC project, most definitely is not. Nevertheless, Intel's World Ahead program has the laudable aim of 'connecting the next billion people to uncompromised technology around the world', and part of that program is a low-cost notebook platform called Classmate (above, centre).
ASUS's Eee (above, right) has proven extremely popular since its mid-2007 launch. Designed in conjunction with Intel, the Eee has a broader remit than the OLPC and the Classmate in that it's less specifically targeted at developing countries and therefore less rugged.
In the following pages we take a comparative pictorial look at the OLPC XO, Intel Classmate and ASUS Eee.
Credit: Charles McLellan
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