Education departments are all in a lather over netbooks, and obviously think they're the best new thing to come along since Décor lunchboxes.
A whopping 10,000 Acer and Lenovo netbooks are to land in the laps of kids across 344 schools in Victoria as part of a three year trial. Schools will own the units, which are worth $900 including accessories, but students can take them home.
The netbooks will come with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium and Google Sketchup.
UPDATE: Reports say the Lenovo machine is a 9in IdeaPad S9 and the Acer an Aspire One. The machines are running XP.
Today's kids can think themselves lucky this didn't come 15 years earlier - otherwise maybe they'd all be getting Apple Newtons.