The third version of the Intel Classmate PC notebook will add new touch-screen and tablet capabilities, plus the Intel Atom processor.
At the 2008 Intel Developer Forum here, Intel representatives showed off the new Classmate design that is expected to hit retail shelves and the education IT market by the end of the year. While some of the original Classmate designs used the older Celeron processor, the updated laptops will come with single-core Atom processors standard.
Intel also announced a two-core Atom processor at IDF, but that chip is not expected to make its way into the Classmate design anytime soon, said Jeffery Galinovsky, a regional manager for Intel's Classmate PC Ecosystem.
The Classmate PC is Intel's own version of the low-cost laptop and it competes, at some level, with the One Laptop Per Child XO. Unlike the OLPC nonprofit project, the Intel Classmate notebook is more of a design than an actual product and it provides both a way to supply low-cost PCs and give local manufacturers, as well as Intel, a way to make a profit
At the 2008 Intel Developer Forum here, Intel representatives showed off the new Classmate design that is expected to hit retail shelves and the education IT market by the end of the year. While some of the original Classmate designs used the older Celeron processor, the updated laptops will come with single-core Atom processors standard.
Intel also announced a two-core Atom processor at IDF, but that chip is not expected to make its way into the Classmate design anytime soon, said Jeffery Galinovsky, a regional manager for Intel's Classmate PC Ecosystem.
The Classmate PC is Intel's own version of the low-cost laptop and it competes, at some level, with the One Laptop Per Child XO. Unlike the OLPC nonprofit project, the Intel Classmate notebook is more of a design than an actual product and it provides both a way to supply low-cost PCs and give local manufacturers, as well as Intel, a way to make a profit
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