[Mark Smithies @ Oct 27th 2006 5:09PM]

It's about much more than price, and third world countries. The worldwide education market has never been properly catered for by the IT industry - we either knock down walls to house big desktops that do too much, pay premium dollars for laptops that can't stand the rigours of the classroom, or go for tiny, losable and stealable pdas when we don't need their miniturisation. Schools have always needed sub $200 devices, solid state, usable keyboard, basic apps, and wireless. When these arrive, the days of computer labs will happily end, all students will have their own device, and IT will become integrated across curriculums.