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CTL 2Go E10 Classmate PC for Kids Hands-On: Durable, But Teddy Bears Are Cute
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Software_Goddess
09/14/09

In reply to CTL 2Go E10 Classmate PC for Kids Hands-On: Durable, But Teddy Bears Are Cute
What difference does it make how ugly it is? My kids would just put neon colored duct tape and stickers all over it anyway.
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ottermann killed Kenny
09/14/09

In reply to CTL 2Go E10 Classmate PC for Kids Hands-On: Durable, But Teddy Bears Are Cute
I'm not sure I see the sense in spending $450 on a netbook for kids, when you can get a full size lappy for that.
Also, I have a problem with getting kids computers so early.
While it's good they learn how to use them, kids still need to know the old way of doing things.
Doing your homework on a computer is fine, but what if their handwriting is illegible as a result?
Doing math on a computer is fine, until you don't have one. Make sure kids still know how to do math with a pencil/paper combination.
The computer is a valuable tool. But, without the skill to do the job without the tool, how do you fix the tool when it breaks?
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Kaiser-Machead
09/14/09

@ottermann likes peanut butter: I work for a gaggle of Courtasaurs that have been lawyering since Keith Richards face didn't look like a mile high glacier passed over it, and their handwriting looks like chickens were put on stilts with ballpoint pens at the ends. Check out a prescription note, or some memo from some other dude that uses his $200 Cross pen to write what looks like a very loosely drawn topography of a coastline. Illegible handwriting is already here. Hopefully the superchildren of the future can read our jumbled hieroglyphs.
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Kaiser-Machead
09/14/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Off topic, but this system is weird, how/why the hell would I "promote" myself?
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strider_mt2k
01/12/09

In reply to Intel Classmate 2 Already For Sale, Priced at $550
I thought I was flashing back again at the end there, whew.

Good times though. Hehe You know once I...Hmmm?

Oh, yeah. The computer.

Nice little piece!

If I didn't already have a great netbook in the form of my Dell Mini 9 I would seriously be drawn to this product, as the convertible aspect of it is REALLY neat.

Tell me it's easily moddable, and cast the thing is a darker color and the temptation factor will reach "triple dog dare" levels, which would be a slight breach of etiquette, but might still have me heading towards the frozen flagpole of device purchasing intent.
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Bearded Rapper
01/12/09

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Feh. In our school, we are forced to buy MacBooks to use in class for "studying", but I interpret it as movie downloading. Our school sucks.
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Kaiser-Machead
01/12/09

@I work as a meth lab technician isn't really a meth lab tec...: Wanna trade with some old Dell Optiplexes? I'll take a Macbook over these any day.
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