Intel Corp. has said its diminutive low-cost laptop will be evaluated in Brazil next year alongside a cheaper alternative from a non-profit group seeking to bring computers to poor children worldwide.The company intends todonate 700 to 800 of the $400 "Classmate PCs" to the government for a large evaluation in schools. Intel has already tested the computers on a smaller scale with students and teachers in a poor neighbourhood of Campinas, near Sao Paulo.
Last month U.S. nonprofit group One Laptop Per Child, donated a prototype of a $150 laptop developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab. The group aims to sell several million laptops to governments in Brazil, Nigeria, Libya, Argentina and Thailand.
