India World’s Cheapest $10 Laptop

As the ‘world cheapest Laptops’ are now in India, was unveiled by the union minister for Human Resource Development Arjun Singh at the Tirupati temple on Tuesday evening.

As the laptop is developed by several organizational authorities, such as it includes the University Grants Commission, the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, it will be priced around 10$ to 20$(about Rs. 500 to Rs.1000),as officially it is said. It is expected that it will be reach within six months. As it is created a buzz in the laptop companies around the world. Some says it is rumor.

As the memory of laptop is not very large it is around 2 GB onboard memories with wireless Internet connectivity. To make it useful for the students, especially in the rural areas, the scientists have made it low power consuming gadget.

The $10 laptop is being seen as India’s reply to One Laptop per Child’s XO and Classmate of Intel. The XO, created by scientist Nicholas Negroponte and MIT Media Lab was originally targeted to cost only $100 but by the time it was ready to enter the market its cost went up to $188. The Classmate notebook PC from Intel was priced at $ 300 a piece.

In contrast, the Indian government’s effort to market laptop at only $10 has caused a flutter in the international laptop market and there are still many players that are very curious in knowing the details of the costing and they have a eager that how Indians managed to keep cost so low.