Hacao’s Classmate PC starts shipping in Vietnam

We haven’t heard all that much from the Classmate PC front lately (at least compared to the OLPC and Eee PC), but it looks like Intel’s education-friendly laptop is gaining a bit of ground of its own, with Hacao’s take on it now shipping in Vietnam. Students receiving that version of the laptop will get Hacao’s own customized Linux distribution (based on Puppy Linux) for an OS, along with the usual 900MHz Celeron processor, 256MB of RAM, 1GB of Flash storage, and a 7-inch WVGA — plus built-in WiFi, but, as Linux Devices points out, none of the OLPC’s fancy mesh networking technology. What’s more, it seems that this version won’t be entirely limited to students, with it also availble in Vietnamese computer stores for $340 (a slight premium over the $250 apiece it’ll cost schools that buy ‘em).

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