..and as promised here is the answer. Allama Iqbal Open University and Intel recently signed an agreement to equip AIOU students with 700,000 Intel-powered classmate personal computers by 2009. Inbox Pakistan is the Intel partner that will assemble and deliver these machines over a 3 year period. This by far is the largest local hardware project to be handled by any assembler. Inbox is already the top PC maker for Pakistan as per the IDC rankings, and this only solidifies its position and volumes.

Lets hope this works out. Its things like these that help rebuild that already-eroded hope I have that we will have computer-literate students someday sipping chai and coding/surfing/learning using technology. See below to see what this laptop looks like:

Classmate PC’s are Intel’s answer to MIT’s OLPC project. It is basically a celeron M processor laptop with a 1 or 2 GB flash drive.

The full story is here as per the APP:

http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7442&Itemid=2

Classmate PCs:

http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=48582 

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