THE LAPTOP FOR CHILDREN IS HATCHING OUT OF ITS SHELL

Intel's low-cost notebook designed for children in developing countries is heading stateside. It's also expected to be available in the European trade markets soon. The pricing is expected to be sub Although retail sales of Classmate Notebook is nothing new as India's HCL, Indonesia's Zyrex and a manufacturer in Mexico have already been selling Classmate laptops for some time now. Sales have been pitiable for the Classmate PC so far as the company has failed to reach the sales blotch of even 100,000 units till now.

But Intel does plan to incline up production in 2008. The world's number one chip maker has already developed V2 of class mate PC and started working on a 3rd, the Classmate 3. Sounds really a crazy development.