Cheeesecake- its the future!

I have just taken delivery of an eee pc from liverpool city council. I ahve it on loan for a couple of weeks just to see, whether it offers any advantages over current hardware.

Its a small, light and inexpensive laptop. It comes supplied with open source software which means its a very reasonable £169 +VAT.

The only two downsides are that it has a relatively small screen and battery life of two hours could be better.

This technology raises a few interesting pointers- its relatively small memory means that most resources that are used with it will need to be primarily web based as laoding lots of software on the machinme is likely to slow it down. Secondly, schools will need to make significant investment in their wireless infrastructure in order to enable students to make full use of them in every lesson.

This must give some useful pointers for leadership teams as to where they will investing money over the next few years as schools will have to face the change from "we cannot afford to have one computer per student" top "we cannot afford not to have one computer per student".