Laptop for Rs7000 with Relaince Connectivity
Posted at October 12th, 2007 under General | 1 Comment »
The much-touted $100 laptop by Nicholas Negroponte – founder of the ‘One laptop per child’ (OLPC) initiative – was finally launched in India today in collaboration with the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group (RADAG). Now priced at $180 (around Rs 7,000), it will have its first pilot in India in a tribal village at Khairat (near Karjat, Maharashtra). Under the initiative, Reliance Communications will provide internet connectivity, network backbone, logistic and support to the OLPC initiative in India, using its network that would cover over 25,000 towns and 6,00,000 Indian villages by March 2008.
OLPC XO laptops with a Linux-based operating system consumes very little power (around 2 watt), instead of a hard drive it uses a flash drive with a 1GB capacity. Moreover, the laptops can be powered by alternate source of energy, they are sunlight readable, have in-built camera and multi-media capabilities.
OLPC has already provided laptops to 5 million school children across the world and aims to cover 150 million school children by 2008. Leading Global Corporates like AMD, Google, News Corp, Nortel, eBay, Citigroup, Seagate, Adobe etc. have partnered in setting up the OLPC Foundation, backed by United Nations.
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