But other than those few classroom tools, the Classmate hardly feels like a leap forward in educational hardware as much as a gray, shrunken version of any typical Intel-powered laptop.

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So, all in all, the Commodore 64 was, and still is a great piece of hardware for entertainment AND educational purposes.

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But he accepts that the Raspberry Pi foundation, having successfully launched the hardware, now needs to focus on its original educational objective.

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