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There are many, many thousands of school kids. Once you started putting those kind of demands on the market they wouldn't be going for free anymore. Not to ment
by greendestiny 15y ago
There are many, many thousands of school kids. Once you started putting those kind of demands on the market they wouldn't be going for free anymore. Not to mention the quality control problems.
- angusgr 15y agoI think you've missed my point a bit. My point is that if all that is needed for schools to expand CS education is cheap commodity computer hardware, it already exists. If educational "demands on the market" don't exist for P4-era used PCs now, are they necessarily going to exist for the USB stick PC?
- greendestiny 15y agoThe availability of hardware on a completely ad-hoc basis gives nothing for developers of software and curriculum to target. The potential deployment of thousands of these devices to children at once and the awareness and cooperation of the education department would completely change what you could do with it.
- pbhjpbhj 15y agoPerhaps the problem with a big black box P4 is the infrastructure requirements. Mind you they're not a lot smaller if you still need a flat screen and keyboard but I can see it being easier to find space in a school ... you also get a system that is going to be usable at home/library for a lot of children in more developed countries/regions.