low cost Laptop @ Rs.1500

Kapil Sibal, India’s Human Resource Development
Minister unveiled a low cost computing-cum-access device specially
designed for the students. The laptop priced at Rs.1500 ($35) is the
cheapest available computing device and the prices are expected to go
down after production begins. It is the result of 5 years of work by the
experts from IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT Madras and
IISC. India will distribute the laptop through educational institutions
under ‘National Mission on Education through Information and Technology
(NMEICT)’. With wireless internet connectivity being made accessible in
rural areas by BSNL and this low cost laptop, students from rural parts
of the country would be able to connect to the internet which was a
distant dream for them till now. But we would have to wait for the
device to be actually distributed to the students before we could
comment on its usability any further.



Brief Specification of the device:

Design: Touch Screen, Tablet, Inbuilt key board

Memory: 2 GB RAM

Connectivity: WiFi, USB port

Power: 2-watt

Charging: Conventional, Solar

Features: video-conferencing, multimedia, PDF reader, unzip tool