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Offline DaBees-Knees

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India develops world's cheapest "laptop" at $35
« on: July 26, 2010, 01:12:54 pm »
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66M0R720100723

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India has come up with the world's cheapest "laptop," a touch-screen computing device that costs $35.

India's Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal this week unveiled the low-cost computing device that is designed for students, saying his department had started talks with global manufacturers to start mass production.

"We have reached a (developmental) stage that today, the motherboard, its chip, the processing, connectivity, all of them cumulatively cost around $35, including memory, display, everything," he told a news conference. He said the touchscreen gadget was packed with Internet browsers, PDF reader and video conferencing facilities but its hardware was created with sufficient flexibility to incorporate new components according to user requirement. Sibal said the Linux based computing device was expected to be introduced to higher education institutions from 2011 but the aim was to drop the price further to $20 and ultimately to $10. The device was developed by research teams at India's premier technological institutes, the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science.

India spends about three percent of its annual budget on school education and has improved its literacy rates to over 64 percent of its 1.2 billion population but studies have shown many students can barely read or write and most state-run schools have inadequate facilities.

I was just about to say that the os will probably cost $250, lol, and I then read they will have Linux installed.  :gum:

Offline ']['affy

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Re: India develops world's cheapest "laptop" at $35
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2010, 01:48:10 pm »
some fat cat will cash in on this and put a retail price of around £150

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Re: India develops world's cheapest "laptop" at $35
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2010, 03:00:57 pm »
35$ and they run linux? hmm... i'll take two ^-^

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