Thread: Is the laptop and personal freedom dead?
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Old 02-07-2011, 01:58 PM   #75
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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung View Post
... Some people must be able to do work on tablets, though, because companies are buying them by the thousands ...
Not just companies. 12,000 school children, plus 800 teachers, in this département of France, have been given iPads, pre-loaded with 50 applications, plus equipped with protective covers, at a cost 1.8 million €uros, which included installing WiFi in the schools, and setting up the necessary support infrastructure. Lucky kids, and nice business, if you can get it!

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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash View Post
... Many of them run XP or a stripped down Vista / Win7 ...
Also, some run Linux, for example:

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