Classmate PC

The Classmate PC, formerly known as Eduwise, is Intel's entry into the market for low-cost personal computers for children in the developing world.

Oscar Clarke, president of Intel of Brasil, delivered thirty production units to the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC), for evaluation by SERPRO (Federal Data Processing Service of Brazil).

About the end of 2009, Argentina's government planned to give all the public high school students one of these netbooks in this edition Rxart Linux.

In 2011, Mexico retracted its bid to buy several million Classmate PCs and instead selected a specialized variant of the Mexican-built Lanix LT laptop series running Windows 7 and Linux Rxart to equip students in 16,000 schools across the country.

In Kenya, Intel has partnered the distributors of Mecer products Mustek E.A who have worked with other government and non-government organizations to distribute the Classmate PC to rural areas.

First batch of E09 model landed on Terengganu on March 2009 and till now the State Government still providing CMPC to primary school students for free.

In late 2007, a deal was made with the Vietnamese government to supply local schools with a special Classmate PC for discounted price.

Its specifications include 2 GB storage, Windows XP Professional, no hard drive, no camera, and SD card support.

Intel had already secured deals to sell hundreds of thousands of Classmate PCs to Libya, Nigeria and Pakistan, the same developing countries the OLPC project had been targeting.

According to Intel: the Classmate PC aims to provide technology that fits into the larger, primarily Windows-based computing environment.

[34] However, according to the OLPC, the XO breaks from the desktop metaphor to provide a UI (Sugar) that they feel is more suited to the educational needs of children.

[35] While the OLPC uses hardware and software highly customized for the educational environment, Intel has argued that the developing world wants to have generic PCs.

[39] Intel Celeron M 900 MHz processor Via VX855 northbridge / southbridge companion chip for peripheral I/O, embedded controller for system monitoring, ISA compatibility: Support for both the MMX and SSE x86 instruction-set extensions 7" 800 × 480 color LCD[42] 8.9" 1024 × 600 touch screen 800 × 600 px (color mode), 1200 × 900 px (black and white mode) 7.5-inch LCD[43] Viewing area: 152.4 mm × 114.3 mm; (6 in × 4.5 in), sunlight readable, dedicated display controller (with separate 2 MB SGRAM frame buffer) supports use of display when CPU is powered down, solid state (LED) backlight 1 MB of serial flash memory provided separately for firmware – expandable through a single externally accessible SD/MMC memory card socket 640 × 480 px at 30 fps