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India Develops World’s Cheapest Laptop
India has come up with the world’s cheapest “laptop,” a touch-screen computing device that costs 35 dollars.
India’s Human Resource Development Minister, Kapil Sibal, last week, unveiled the low-cost computing device that was 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 dollars, 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 dollars and ultimately to 10 dollars.
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 per cent of its annual budget on school education and has improved its literacy rates to over 64 per cent of its 1.2 billion population.
However, studies had shown that many students could barely read or write and most state-run schools had inadequate facilities.
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