| World's Cheapest Touch Screen Computer: $35
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msg:4175394 | 3:45 pm on Jul 23, 2010 (gmt 0) |
World's Cheapest Touch Screen Computer: $35 [uk.reuters.com] 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.
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Even if you have no HD and next to no computing power, it's still a crazy low price.
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Robert Charlton
msg:4176479 | 8:13 am on Jul 26, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Quite amazing, really. This probably is the collective cost of building blocks that have become commodities, not the selling price of a product built out of next-gen components squeezed into a tiny designer case with a large marketing budget.
| 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. |
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That's less than the price of a copy of "Grand Theft Auto". I hope some of India's progress spills over to here.
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