Re: Victorian teachers to get laptops for $3 per week
Danny Yee (danny@staff.cs.usyd.edu.au)
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 12:18:44 +1000 (EST)
> Here's a story from today's Age: a Whole of Government approach that
> looks very serious, very expensive to implement, flexible (both
> Wintel and Mac) and probably a very good thing:
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/daily/981023/news/news13.html
What's with the "Wintel and Mac" bit? You can run things other than
Windows on x86 machines, you know, and it's not at all unlikely that
Acer will be providing laptops with AMD or Cyrix CPUs in the rather than
Intel ones...
Danny, who would find it hard to turn down a G3 laptop running PPC Linux
at $450 over three years :-).