Intel’s classmate PC, which has deployed over 4 million devices to students and teachers worldwide. It’s purpose-built, so it’s not just another consumer device. The classmate is sold directly to school systems with kids’ 1:1 eLearning environments in mind.

Intel believes that you can’t just take a piece of consumer technology and place it in the hands of kids and hope it withstands the use – and often abuse – that children can deliver. Thus, the convertible classmate Netbook/Tablet is specifically designed to withstand the harshest environment known to man (no, not the Sahara or Antarctica) – a fourth grader’s backpack.