Intel and Microsoft sell cheap laptops to Libya

About 150,000 laptops for children have been sold by Intel and Microsoft to the Libyan government for $ 200 to promote education in this developing country.

According to Intel spokesman Agnes Kwan, the Ministry of Education of Libya ordered the laptop number from August 2007, and the product was shipped from the end of last month.

According to Intel spokesman, the company and Microsoft do not subsidize the number of laptops because they are laptop models in the Classmate PC program. She did not disclose in detail how much the Libyan Ministry of Education paid for the two firms.

Agnes Kwan also said Intel signed an agreement with Nigeria as part of the Classmate PC project, but it is unclear how many laptops will be installed, and they will be installed with a Windows or Linux operating system (Classmate PC can run. two).

It is said to be the second largest laptop Intel sold to developing countries since it launched the Classmate PC program last year. In April 2007, Intel also reached an agreement to sell 700,000 laptops to Pakistan's Allama Iqbal Open University.

Van Han