The criteria for the tender opens tomorrow.

It will be interesting to see if NSW go with an open source OS and apps. Afterall, even if M$ drastically reduce their license fee to around $20 to capture tomorrow’s ‘market’, it will still add almost $4 million to the cost of providing these netbooks to the students. As NSW are almost broke, it may be considered an unnecessary expenditure.

You know, when I was a kid we were allowed to bring our own calculators to school but we weren’t allowed to use them during exams. I wonder if that’s why I never win the lottery?

My brother is in year 11 and I thought this had already happened?…

His school got a grant or something such from the government to buy laptops for students in these years already.

That quoted unit cost includes software, wireless network and teacher training.

I saw this on the news last night. The unit they were demonstrating on the news was a Lenovo.

Update:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/laptops-in-schools-will-be-antisocial/2008/11/30/1227979845018.html

The cost per unit is A$2245.00 and Myspace and Facebook will be blocked from use.

and Beau.. you really don’t like poor old Kevin Rudd do you. I would hae thought that getting this going after ony 1 year in office was exceptional progress for a politician.

Gordon

Finally- it’s only taken a year for Kevin Rudd to actually *do* something that’s not travelling the world!

Hoping that this is rolled out to the other states shortly after New South Wales gets theirs. :)