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Notebooks Replace Textbooks in Texas
DrEnter writes "Yahoo! is running this article about an experiment at Johnson Elementary school in Dallas, Texas, which will provide an IBM ThinkPad to every 5th and 6th grader, each one loaded with electronic versions of textbooks and 2,000 other books. Apparently, due to rapidly increasing enrollment and long delays to get new books the school is trying to head off future problems. They also mention a similar program in Henrico County, Virginia, using iBooks and how some of these programs are affecting laptop design (like Apple replacing pop-out CD trays with CD slides)."
Outfit them all with giant sewing-machine size Compaq luggables for portable computers. Everything's bigger in Texas, so why not have the biggest portable computers around? The former governor also told me that the bigger a disk is, the more data it holds too!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Amount of time It takes for every thinkpad to be running counterstrike.
Billy, what is 8 divided by 2?
What? Man that was BS Stupid Shield Lamers, Damn Lag. #@$#%
I'm L337 Screw you Teacher!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
how about learning to write with pen and paper.
what happens when the damn piece of crap breaks down?
You, um, sharpen the pencil?
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I am a programmer. I am paid to produce syntax not grammar. Deal with it.
answer - toshiba toughbooks.
they can withstand even a 8 year old boy.
I have an old one that has been sitting open and running on my deck all winter long. still works good, the keyboard was funky until I got the pine needles out of it.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.