3rd Gen Classmate PC - First Look Comments

Judging by your review, I can't share your enthusiasm at all.

The overall design. Looks like they glued together a few spare parts they found in the basement. How long is the screen hinge meant to stay unbroken or do they put a few spare hinges right into the shipping box?

The handle looks like it's asking to break. Not integrated into the main housing it wastes precious room. It would be an enhancement to put some batteries into it.

The inside hardware - now they picked up what all the other netbooks have already. Still no reflective display allowing you to use it in bright sun.

Windows XP ... with Linux raising everywhere the argument "they should learn what they have to use in their job later" loses ground from day to day. Which programming environment does it come with?

The camera ... yet another hinge which can break.

The good thing is, there's a touch screen.

This posting has probably a pretty different angle of view than the reviewer's writing. This classmate PC will work nicely if you don't expect anything you can't get from other vendors at all. But I fail to see anything but a standard netbook with a "for education" sticker on it.