Whether netbook owners are becoming more rough in their handling of netbooks, I don’t know, but we now have another netbook which is designed as a “rugged” netbook. The new Intel Classmate netbook now offers a more rugged and protective design, with air cushions and crash zones around the fragile areas like the display and corners. The new design aims to protect the netbook from drops, as well as rough handling and stacking.

The Classmate features an antimicrobial coating on the touchpad and keyboard, which has been improved from previous devices. The coating protects against bacteria, mold and other microorganisms from being transferred to and from the device.

The keyboard and touchpad along with the display has also been made water resistant. There are water holes on the bottom where the liquid can drain down to. It can protect spills of up to 100cc of liquid.

With regards to the specifications of these netbooks, the Classmate comes with a 10 inch display, a power efficient motherboard, coupled with a 45nm Atom CPU. It also comes with a 6 cell battery, which can provide a full days use on one charge. The range of netbooks will be released to schools and other institutions. Whether or not the Classmate netbooks will also make it to general consumers isn’t known, nor is the pricing of the Intel Classmate netbooks.

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Intel is prepping up its newest Classmate PC iteration in time for the CES 2009. This new convertible Classmate PC will of course feature a touchscreen interface as it is the current standard for most netbooks and nettops today.

Slated for a release next month in Las Vegas and to be shipped middle of January 2009 by CTL, the new Classmate convertible PC will have the same table form factor as its brother the CTL 2GO PC.

Laptopmag’s got the chance to have a brief hands-on with the prototype of the new Intel Tablet PC and published the following features, 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, 60GB HD, Windows XP and an 8.9 touchscreen LCD.

Laptopmag also noted that the touchscreen feature of the netvertible PC is responsive to both finger and pen stylus input.

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