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

[Sean DALY]

Intel markets latest Classmate reference design as "2 in 1" tablet + laptop.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/solutions/2-in-1.html
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/products/versatility-for-learning.html

Sean


On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
wrote:

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