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LENOVO TO PROVIDE LAPTOPS FOR AUSTRALIAN GOVT'S EDUCATION PLAN.
SYDNEY, April 1 Asia Pulse - Chinese computer company Lenovo (SEHK:0992) has won a contract to provide 200,000 laptops for New South Wales (NSW) secondary school students as apart of the AUstralian government's A$1.9 billion (US$1.321 billion) digital education program.
The NSW government has also announced agreements reached with software giants Microsoft and Adobe to provide an extensive suite of software for the laptops.
The Lenovo contract, worth A$150 million, includes 25,000 laptops for teachers.
Premier Nathan Rees said his government would contribute A$25.5 million for the software, which he said would cost each student more than A$5,500 if they were to purchase it in a store.
The first laptops will go to teachers so they can familiarise themselves with the hardware and software, before Year 9 students receive their own machines in term 3.
Those students will keep their computers until Year 12 and beyond if ...
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