Intel Corporation has signed its biggest low-cost laptop deal with the Portuguese government to provide elementary school students with 500,000 computers. The designs of these computers will be based on the company’s Classmate PC design. The deal strengthens Intel’s competition with the One Laptop Per Child nonprofit organization in the race to market low-cost laptops for schoolchildren, mostly in the developing countries. Intel’s Classmate PC and OLPC’s XO are among a growing field of small, cheap computers aimed at ensuring that students have access to technology and the Internet.
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