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The Classmate has rivals, and many were on display at the very lively Bett tradeshow. The Lenovo IdeaPad S10 is a solidly built netbook with good features that has only just found its way into UK shops, and may find a place in schools.
"Netbooks will eliminate exercise books and textbooks," said Liam Stapleton, vice principal of Brune Park Community College in Gosport, Hants, who is considering a rollout of Lenovo netbooks to his pupils.
"Schools have been left behind," said Stapleton. "Twenty years ago, homes were data poor and schools were data rich, because schools had books. Now it's flipped. Schools are data poor and homes are data rich, because they have the internet."
