India develops world's cheapest 'laptop' at $35

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India develops world's cheapest 'laptop' at $35 - dnaindia.com

New Delhi: India has come up with the world's cheapest laptop, a touch-screen computing device that will cost just $35.

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, its processing, connectivity, all of them cumulatively cost around $35, including memory, display, everything," he told a news conference.

He said the touch-screen 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 (IIT) and the Indian Institute of Science.

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

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The cost of the material, which worked out to $47, was brought down after a massive exercise, including a 50% government subsidy.

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What is the expected OS? Is it windows? Is it free?

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Originally Posted by achu

What is the expected OS? Is it windows? Is it free?

Windows and Free are antonyms just like pakistan and intelligence. Read the post again dude -its has to be Linux . Can u even get a Windows License for $35 ? forget Windows ..even DOS ? ( except on the streets of muhammed alee rd or abdool gafoor rd , where u can get a pirated version for $2 !!! )