uLearning Blog » netbooks http://ulearning.edublogs.org News and views on ubiquitous, mobile, connected 21st century learning (mLearning --> uLearning) Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:25:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 200,000 netbooks for NSW Education http://ulearning.edublogs.org/2009/01/21/200000-netbooks-for-nsw-education/ http://ulearning.edublogs.org/2009/01/21/200000-netbooks-for-nsw-education/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:47:49 +0000 jnxyz http://ulearning.edublogs.org/2009/01/21/200000-netbooks-for-nsw-education/ Continue reading →
]]> If anything besides the rise of mobile phones illustrates the ubiquitous, everywhere direction that digital technology is taking, its the recent development of netbooks – small but generally-capable laptops that sell for between $300-600. The NSW department of Education obviously has detected this trend, and has announced a tender process for the purchase of 200,000 such devices. Even better, rather than just buy consumer hardware off the shelf, they have specified education-focused conditions – a wonderful but sadly rare example of this happening. You can go here to read more:
 
> http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,,24934750-5013040,00.html

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]]> Netbooks, those super-small but just capable-enough laptops, have been around long enough now that their impact can be measured in more than just how many have been released (very many) or how much they have been hyped. While the One-Laptop-Per-Child program that started it all is encountering difficulties at the moment, Education departments the world over have still embraced the mini-laptop concept as the best way of delivering 1:1 laptop rollouts in a cost-effective way.
 
Tangible proof of the impact of this new class of PCs is showing up in sales figures – the following Appleinsider article reports on recent US sales data showing that Acer has re-taken the 3rd spot at the expense of Apple, which has fallen a place for the first time in some time. Acer’s success is reported as being due to the success of its strong Aspire Netbook line, while Apple has no products at present in this clearly growing category. Apple’s Steve Jobs recently opinioned that the iPod Touch and iPhone were its equivalent, but maybe the current harsher economic times will force Apple’s hand, making the many Mac-using schools of the world rather happy I imagine.
 
Article is HERE:
> http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/14/apples_share_of_us_pc_market_slips_to_8_at_hands_of_acer.html

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