PORTUGAL’S PRIME Minister, José Socrates, and members of his cabinet began handing out the first 5,000 Portuguese laptops to primary schools across the country on Tuesday.
These laptops, which are made in Portugal and named Magalhães after the 16th-century Portuguese explorer, include Intel processors and have been offered to schools at a subsidised price of 50 euros each.
This scheme, which will see half a million laptops distributed, aims to boost the computer literacy of school children aged 6 to 11 in the country.
