India has come up with the world’s cheapest “laptop,” a touch-screen computing device that costs $35.  it will be come in market in 2011. the motherboard, its chip, the processing, connectivity, all of them cumulatively cost around $35, including memory, display, everything”. the touchscreen gadget was packed with Internet browers, PDF reader and video conferencing facilities but its hardware was created with sufficient flexibility to incorporate new components according to user requirement.

The Low-Cost Computing Device

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.

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6 Responses to “India Develops World’s Cheapest “Laptop” At $35”

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    11:04 pm on July 25th, 2010

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    6:42 am on July 28th, 2010

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  3. Fourteenninja
    5:22 am on July 29th, 2010

    Thanks for keeping me up to date on this issue.

  4. Pausleal
    5:51 pm on July 30th, 2010

    well written blog. I’m glad that I could find more info on this. thanks

  5. Gil Salt
    4:33 pm on August 4th, 2010

    I recently decided to create a short video about this, I would be pleased if you would possibly take a moment to look it and perhaps leave a message about what you think, I left the movie link in the “website” field, hopefully you can get to it, thanks greatly

  6. Movies
    1:53 am on August 11th, 2010

    can any one tell me where we can buy this laptop.i might me interested in it ,if i get little better and good configuration i will buy it..

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