Intel has revealed the design for a tablet version of its Classmate PC, a low-powered netbook designed for use in primary schools

The tablet-format Classmate, which was unveiled on Friday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (see Special Report), will let manufacturers build Classmate PCs that can be used either as a standard clamshell laptop or — with a 180° swivel of the display — as a touchscreen tablet. As with most netbooks, it will run on Intel's Atom processor.