7″? Will that satisfy anyone? With a screen that tiny how much you want to bet by the time these kids graduate high school they’re all wearing glasses.
For nearly a year, Fresno Unified school officials searched for a laptop that wouldn’t clutter a student’s desk.
Thursday, school officials said they purchased 1,000 wireless laptops that fit on a desk alongside textbooks and notebooks, as well as give students the opportunity to build a digital portfolio of essays, drawings and other creations.
“This is cool,” said Chris Mitchell, a student at Bullard High School, where school officials unveiled the 7-inch wireless laptops.
Fresno Unified hopes the laptops will help students increase test scores through the ability to research information on the Internet, as well as halt five years of declining enrollment by enticing parents to send their children to the district’s schools.
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With this technology, Madden said, a student’s portfolio will include everything a student writes and saves in the district’s computer network from kindergarten to 12th grade. Because the laptop has a camera, students can take a photograph of their artwork or make a video of their school project.
So, with a built-in camera, how quickly will the first porn be made on one?
Click the pic below for information on this pint-sized PC. Interesting tech is no hard disk: up to an 8 gig SSD.
“I”, would like to see SCHOOL systems publishing THEIR OWN BOOKS… FORGET buying this carp at OUT RAGIOUS prices…
it’s small enough to place on the bathroom and watch porn.
When did pencils and paper stop working? One more reason to hate the corrupt public school system in this country.
If the screen is small, just adjust the number of characters per line. 40 sounds about right. HTML was designed with that in mind.
I’d like to get my hands on an 8 GB SSD, in 2.5″ laptop HD format, put it in an old Thinkpad 701C, and have true tiny and silent old-fashioned computing (with a butterfly keyboard). I’d like to pay $100 for the SSD-HD, and, no, I don’t want to have to use an adapter. AFAIK, what you can get now is something 4x as large for 4x as much.
they got 1000 computers
“But not every educator is thrilled with the $650,000 investment.”
so… ~$650 per computer in units of 1000.
currently $410.83 shipped from newegg for 1.
I don’t know what kind of educational discount they negotiated or markdown for getting 1000 all at once, but an average of $240+ dollars overhead for EACH $400 pc purchased seems a little high, but typical of bureaucratic bloat where a big chunk of the donor/taxpayer’s money gets lost in the “process”
easiest money to spend? somebody elses
My wife keeps telling me me that “7 inches would satisfy her…if only!”.
I would like i had it at the Univercity, for lectures, but not at school or college.