Small notebook computers are no question perfect for students to use at school. The small and light form makes it easy to backpack around the school and as long as the notebook has fairly standard components it is more than sufficient to meet the needs of those students. The officials in the Australian state New South Wales agrees with that assessment and have announced that 197,000 public school students will get what sounds like netbooks this year.
"These custom-made laptops are about three-quarters the size of aregular laptop – compact enough to fit into a schoolbag or a locker butpowerful enough to support all the IT needs of our high school students.
"Wecan deliver the digital revolution by putting wireless networks inevery public secondary school and buying a laptop for all the 197,000students in years 9 to 12."
They go on to indicate that students will get to keep the "small notebooks" when they leave school. This is a very ambitious program and the largest of this type we’ve heard of so far. Kudos to the Aussies for putting their money where their students are. There was no word given which company is supplying the laptops.
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