[IAEP] Which cheap 2016 Laptop should be our reference?

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

>
> On Jun 21, 2016 10:41 AM, "Walter Bender" <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > soliciting a small donation of hardware from Google as a reference
> platform.
>
> Who do we know at google who could help with that?
>
> Despite google fonts being a client, I don't know anyone there who could
> help with this :(
>
> In any case, which laptop they might give us may not be the best to
> recommend.
>
> There are 2 obvious candidates to me, the new "olpc laptop" available from
> olpc inc to USA resident individuals for us$200 plus us$100 shipping from
> china, with other countries shipping fees varying; and the One Education
> "Infinity" which is us$350 plus shipping from Taiwan/ Australia.
>
> The olpc unit ships with sugar and its cheaper so seems a better bet given
> both launched around now.
>

Still waiting for details, but apparently there is a fairly popular
Classmate-class laptop in use in Argentina, Chile, etc.

-walter


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Walter Bender
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