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Fraser Speirs:

From the point of view of a school, I don’t think the iPad mini will enable a lot of new 1:1 programs. The reason that we don’t have more isn’t purely money. After all, devices cheaper than the iPad have existed for years – they’re called Netbooks – and we don’t have hundreds of schools full of 1:1 Netbook programs. I think, for a full-time 1:1 deployment, you’re still going to want to use a full-size iPad.

Speirs doesn’t think the iPad Mini is going to be very important for education.