Thursday, July 31, 2008

Notebook $100 , Cheapest Notebook in the World ?

An ambitious project was walking to reach result that maybe at this time beyond conception: make laptop at the price of USD 10 or about Rp 100 thousand only. Heard illogical?

That project are tilled by indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India, that in collaboration with indian Institute Technologi in Chennai. D. Purandeswari, as education minister , say at konfrensi in Delhi this project slated for upper education quality in India.

This Program likely still far in space. Just Purandeswari have not yet can unfold the specification of super laptop cheap referred, either from form side or giblets.

At this time computer species cheapest jinjing that exist in marketing is type Netbook. Begin at Asus Eee PC, Zyrex Anoa till MSI U100 Wind Netbook.

Even its inspiration is cheap laptop project USD 100 in the style of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), most Netbook that exist in marketing at price Rp 3 million till Rp 5 million.

Cheapest Laptop in the market at this time maybe is j-pros Mini Laptop JL7100 from JoinTech that dibanderol USD 99 (about Rp 900 thousand). J-pros uses Windows operating system CE 5.0 and have application ably very limited.

Institute of market analysis Gartner laptop prediction USD 100 just still too far from reality, more than anything else for laptop USD 10. "In three year forwards even also, laptop USD 100 have have not yet became realistic goals," mention analysis Gartner.

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