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...minutes. But another sound adds to the din: the staccato clicking of keys on computers. In this hard-knocks Washington Heights school, where a substantial number of the students qualify for free lunches, a hardwired revolution is taking shape. All the students in the class work on their own Toshiba laptops, cutting-edge machines bought by the school district last year and leased to the students for $30 a month. The reports they are about to present are high-speed, full-color Power Point jobs. And when teacher Janice Gordon wants her class's attention, she commands, "Screens...
These days laptops, once the accessory of bicoastal businessmen, are right at home next to grade-schoolers' lunch boxes. A program launched by Toshiba and Microsoft that offers software-loaded laptops to schools at discount rates has grown from 52 public and private schools in 1996 to more than 170 this year. The private Cincinnati Country Day School requires all 500 of its students from grades 6 through 12 to carry laptops; the school pays half the cost, and parents chip in one-third. The public school district in Beaufort, S.C., leased laptops to 300 students last year, and after...
Then there's the cost. Good portable computers can range from $500 to $2,000--and don't expect high-tech companies to simply hand them out. The Microsoft-Toshiba laptop program has stoked the brand loyalty of more than 10,000 students. Apple peddles the eMate, a laptop created in 1996 specifically for kiddie consumers, which goes for $650. NetSchools, a company based in Mountain View, Calif., started up last year to sell one product: a $1,600 portable computer custom-built for students that comes with an infrared connection to the school's computer network, a water-resistant...
...international standard since vhs vs. Betamax (in which Idei was on the losing side). Sony and Philips had been working for years to come up with a video version of the CD that would replace videotape cassettes and take CD-ROM discs to a new level. But in 1993 Toshiba trumped Sony, at least in the segment of the DVD market that involved nonrecordable discs. Toshiba announced a different DVD standard for such discs that was supported not only by competitors like Hitachi but also by a major content provider, Time Warner. In January 1995, Matsushita, Sony's chief rival...
Best of all, the four-pound eMate can run for an unprecedented 24 hours without recharging. Forget wondering whether your Toshiba will make it through Justice on batteries alone; you may only need to recharge the eMate once a week, even with heavy...