Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Intel Classmate PC 18K for India

Finally the Classmate PC is here with Intel and top 3

According to PCWorld.com,

Intel Corp. has tied with three large Indian PC vendors to assemble the Classmate PC, a PC specially designed for schools. The three vendors -- HCL Infosystems Ltd., Wipro Ltd., and Zenith Computers Ltd. -- will start shipping the product to Indian schools next month.

Classmate PC from Intel at a price of 18 ,000 Indian Rupees (US$450), with the education software and Wi-Fi connectivity available at extra cost.

The Classmate PC will be sold only to schools, and not through retail channels to consumers, John McClure, Intel's director for marketing in South Asia said on Monday. The Classmate PC has been specially designed to work in a networked classroom environment, and comes with software and features that give the teacher in the classroom control over the dissemination of content to students' PCs, he said.

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