It is a fact that the costs of hardware always tend to fall as finding in new technologies reveals but nobody expected that a laptop could cost as little as $ 35. In India we have achieved this feat and denied the earlier concept that a laptop comes for near about $ 100 and laptop is an expensive gadget.
One laptop per child (OLPC) :
Many can remember the idea of “One Laptop per Child(OLPC), which aimed to provide low-cost laptops for education for poor children around the world.
When with this idea the men tried to sell gadgets in India, the country’s government rejected the proposal as it was too expensive after that began a long-term effort to develop a cheaper alternative.
The prototype of MIT’s $ 100 ended up costing $ 200 on the market, on the other hand in India the thinking about lowering the cost went on .Now the question arises what will the OLPC do and what happens to their plans to take a tablet for $ 99? The answer is simple OLPC joined the forces to help develop the Indian government’s planned US$35 tablet and sent a congratulatory note to Government of India .
Through a blog post Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said that today the worl is in need of such gadget and India can have full access to OLPC hardware and software technology.
This laptop is like a IPAD?
We can say that have some similarity because it is a tablet, that is, no keypad but works with touch screen.
Here the characteristics of cheapest laptop in the world that are known so far:
Media Capacity
Touchscreen
2 GB RAM
Wifi
USB Ports
Internet Browsers
OS based on Linux
PDF Reader
Videoconferencing
They are currently deciding on the company to be responsible for production in early 2011, probably Taiwan. The final destination will be students from India and is thought to give a subsidy to lower the cost of only $ 35 to $ 20.
When compared to an IPAD and taking into account the huge difference in price, this laptop offers a lot more freedom and opportunities as portable.
It is intended primarily for word processing, Internet browsing and video conferencing. You could also adapt a solar recharge but that is not included in the current cost.
Now only left to wonder if this marvel created by engineers at the IISc in Bangalore, will come down to us someday?. Of course, while we hope we can watch the video to confirm that it really exists.
Source:http://news-live.net/indias-35-laptop-olpc-proposal-for-align-efforts-to-promote-education-1420.html
