Lenovo has won the tender from the NSW DET to supply 257,000 laptops to students and teachers in NSW high schools.
According to the AustraliaIT article, the machine selected is the Lenovo IdeaPad S10e.
To see the technical specifications I went to the US site. Unless the machine given to the DET is changed in some way, I don’t think it meets the mandatory specifications. The mandatory specifications in the tender specified a 6 hour battery life (for a whole school day). In the tech specs, Lenovo say the S10e does 5 hours on a 6-cell battery.
The specs on the Australian site note a hard disk drive rather than a solid state disk drive.
The Machines will ship with Windows XP, Office and some Adobe applications.
Updated
The Premier of NSW’s media release only notes the battery life as “extended”.
Updated 2
A rant on my MathsClass blog.
It’s not a PC, it’s a netbook. OK for surfing. Weak for apps.
Spin wins again.