Intel Corporation has announced an agreement with the government of Brazil to donate 700 to 800 of its $400 Classmate PC laptops for use in a large-scale evaluation in Brazilian schools. Intel has already conducted small scale tests of the systems in poor areaas of Campinas (near Sao Paolo), but the agreement marks the first time the company has inked an agreement with a government to test systems.
Intel’s Classmate PC is a key component of Intel’s World Ahead program aimed at development markets; it’s a lightweight, ruggedized laptop computer with a 7-inch color screen, Wi-Fi networking, and flash memory instead of a hard drive for storage.
