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Samhälle Portugal kommer att köpa in 500 000 av Intels Classmate pc under det kommande året. Det är den största beställningen av företagets billiga dator. Via Computer Sweden.
Den pågående utvecklingen mot små och billiga bärbara datorer är som sagt intressant. Sannolikt kommer vi att få se fler projekt - om än inte lika storskaliga. Jag hoppas att vi även får se svenska projekt!
Since I’m not particularly fond of Safari I’m using Firefox on my Mac. However, Firefox introduces a really annoying problem: each time a file is opened from the Internet it is saved on the desktop. This means that the desktop becomes extremely messy after a while.
I have now managed to solve this problem by downloading an older Safari (version 2.04) from here, launch it, and change the preferences for saving downloaded files. I changed it to the /tmp/ directory. Firefox apparently uses the Safari setting for saving files that are opened directly from the Internet, but it doesn’t work to change the setting in Safari 3.0…
Satisfied at last:)
Det taiwanesiska företaget Carapelli har släppt vad företaget hävdar är världens billigaste laptop. Datorn som kostar endast 130 dollar är riktigt intressant om du inte har för stora krav på hårdvara.
Den bärbara datorn Impulse NPX-9000 levereras med en bildskärm på sju tum och operativsystemet Linux. Datorn har en processor på 400 MHz, 128 megabyte ramminne och 1 GB flashminne som lagringsenhet.
Trådlös internetadapter ingår inte men finns som tillbehör. Open Office programsvit kommer förinstallerat på hårddisken tillsammans med en webbläsare och ett gäng multimedieprogram.
Det finns bara en hake, Impulse NPX-9000 går endast att köpa i bulk bestående av 100 datorer. Något som endast är intressant för återförsäljare eller större företag.
Samt skolor och andra utbildningsinstitutioner skulle man kanske kunna tillägga…?
I have been following the recent trend of ultraportable computers (which are also called subnotebooks). One reason for this is of course that I want to have one myself:). However, the main reason is that they seem to be a very interesting choice for use in education. Especially for two reasons: they are small enough to bring everywhere, and the price – they are very affordable! The price range is somewhere between €200-500. For that amount of money you get a small laptop that is good enough for most of the things that are needed in schools as well as in higher education. Most of us are carrying around more computer power than we need and ultraportables are a good compromise between computer power, prize and size.
Maybe the aim for one laptop per student is starting to be realistic now? With a price under €300 it is actually possible finance an effort to give each one of our teacher students their own laptop! A project that I wrote about a year ago (in Swedish). Maybe we will be able to realize it now? We will start evaluating some of the ultraportables during the autumn.
A couple of models that looks interesting are the MSI Wind , The Asus Eee series , the Acer Aspire One and the VIA OpenBook – which more seem to be an architecture platform.
Just updated my Wordpress to version 2.6, which means that I Can blogg from my iPhone. It seems to be working better than I expected! 
Smashing Magazine lists "55 Free High Quality Icon Sets" that look very nice and that can useful as a free resource for education. Besides, Smashing Magazine is a good source for web developers in general.
