And some photos of the new Classmate prototype

Sure, they're press photos from Intel, but doesn't this little thing look cool? Load it up with Edubuntu, full mesh implementation, and keep the price under $500 and you'll certainly have me rolling it out in my elementary schools. The video embedded above is some background on the move to a tablet format.

Click here for more images of the Classmate from IDF.

What do you think? Is this the grand poobah of educational netbooks?