[Yr7-10it] netbooks being distributed to every year 5 and 6 studentin northern victoria primary schools

[Bill Kerr]

hi rob,

I'm not surprised they are running proprietary software but am surprised
they are running vista. To quote from a recent wired article:

Nearly every company in the PC industry has had its game plan uprooted by
netbooks. Microsoft had intended to stop selling Windows XP this summer,
driving customers to its more lucrative Vista operating system. But when
Linux roared out of the gate on netbooks, Microsoft quickly
backpedaled, extending
XP <http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2008/apr08/04-03xpeos.mspx>for
another two years—specifically for netbooks. Most experts guess that
Redmond can charge barely $15 for XP on a netbook, less than a quarter of
what it previously sold for. (Microsoft corporate vice president Brad Brooks
assures me the company is earning "good money" on the devices and plans to
make sure its next OS, Windows 7, can run on netbooks—Vista performs poorly
on them.) For its part, Intel is selling millions of its low-power Atom
chips to netbook manufacturers. "We see this as our next billion-dollar
market," says Anil Nanduri <http://www.spoke.com/info/p4gnY93/AnilNanduri>,
Intel's technical marketing manager—except that the company makes only a
fraction of the money on an Atom chip as on a more powerful Celeron or
Pentium in a full-size laptop.
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/17-03/mf_netbooks?currentPage=all




On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Costello, Rob R <
Costello.Rob.R at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> HI Bill
>
> its been on the cards for ages and seems finally official
>
>
> http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/edulibrary/public/ict/netbooks/netbook-parent-brochure.pdf
>
> i've seen the models  (or at least the same model and software image that
> one of the schools here had prepurchased) - Lenovo - i don't know the exact
> brand - 1.6 Ghz chip i think
> running vista and seemed suprisingly responsive
>
> afraid i'd choose them, and the software image, over the XO / OLPC sugar
> environment that might have indirectly influenced the design of the netbook
> market
>
> cheers
>
> rob
>
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>
> netbooks being distributed to every year 5 and 6 student in northern
> victoria primary schools
>
> press release
>
> http://candybroadcountry.blogspot.com/2009/02/hi-tech-mini-netbooks-to-boost-learning.html
>
> brochure to parents (pdf)
>
> http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/edulibrary/public/ict/netbooks/netbook-parent-brochure.pdf
>
> Anyone have more information about this? I'm preparing a talk about the
> potential of netbooks for my school staff and for the CEGSA conference in
> July (I'll post my notes somewhere in due course, still at the research
> stage)
>
> --
> Bill Kerr
> http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/
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