Rs.1500 Laptop for Indian Students

Jul 22, 2010 by Ajeet Khurana

India unveiled a Rs.1,500 (around $30) laptop designed specifically for students.The sleek-looking device — a cross between I-Pad and tablet PC and charged by an equally sleeker solar panel.The upper price limit for the device is $35.

HRD ministry has made an open invitation to one and all to come up with more variants that fulfills specifications spelt out by it. The ministry has set up several separate teams, which are involved in bringing out their prototypes. In the next few months — by then more innovations will emerge and even price can come down to $20 or $10 — the ministry will issue an international expression of interest for manufacturing of these devices. “Initially manufacturing might be done in Taiwan or some other place but eventually it will be done in India,” Sibal said. He said there are already enough offers for lower price. The $35 price, he said, is inclusive of cost of manufacturing abroad. However, the cost of the solar panel has not been factored into the price yet. The ministry is in talks with a company to bring down the cost of solar panels.

Based on Open Source, the device does not have a hard-drive. It can not only support video-web conferencing facility, but also boasts of several other latest features — multimedia content viewer (pdf, docx, ods, adp, xls, jpeg, gif,png, bmp, odt, zip, AVCHD, AVI, AC3), searchable Pdf reader, unzip tool for unzipping files, computing capabilities such as Open Office, SciLab for printing support, media player capable of playing streamed along with stored media files, USB port etc.

What People Are Looking For:

www leptop price com, printer suported mini laptop in india, mini laptops in india with solar charger, mini laptop price @ 1500, mini laptop price 1500, mini laptop price - 1500 price, mini laptop in price 1500, laptops for free for Indian students, indian student laptop, canada post gifs laptop to india.