Venezuela spray on laptops

Venezuela ordering one million low-cost notebooks for their students.

Machines based on Intel-class notebook, which was designed for schoolchildren.

Many believe the operation is struck by the “one laptop per child, the organization is also touting their children in new machines nations.

Venezuela is buying notebooks in the $ 3 billion (£ 1.66bn) bilateral trade with Portugal, which also includes housing and utilities.

Computer Crash

Portugal is the production of blue and white under license from Portable and Intel is largely based on chip-design class of his team.

Dubbing Magalhães (Magellan), notebooks have onboard low-power chips Intel Atom for portable computers. Sport as digital cameras and broadband networks.

As an operating system, vehicles equipped with versions of Linux developed in Venezuela.

The agreement with Venezuela following an agreement between Intel and Portugal, which was signed in August in a class of machines.

In accordance with which Portugal agreed to buy 500,000 cars, so that every six to 10 years in the country for one.

The agreement for the purchase of cars is the largest yet for laptops for students.

Intel big rival in this market is “one laptop per child (OLPC), an organization laptop XO.

This machine has a Wi-Fi on board and was designed to work even in difficult circumstances, can be found in many developing countries.

The original objective of OLPC is a laptop that cost less than $ 100. The first design ultimately worth about 188 dollars. OLPC group has completed its initial goal of price to future versions.

source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7642985.stm