Under new scheme, students can own computer for USD 35 - The Times of India

Just now I read on TimesofIndia website that Union HRD minister Kapil Sabil's announced in the 39th annual conference of council of boards of school education in India (COBSE) in Ajmer that government is planning to provide the laptop to students "US$35 means approximately Rs.1600 along with a 50% subsidy by the Central government .

We are still waiting the Rs.750 laptop launched by Mr. Sibal previously because the availbility of laptop to students at low cost will totally change the scenario of Indian Education.

Best of Luck Mr. Kapil Sibal.

Under new scheme, students can own computer for USD 35 - The Times of India

Laptop @ Rs.1500

Yesterday HRD Minister Mr. Kapil Sibal launched a $35 laptop means Rs.1500/- laptop designed by experts of IIT, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Mr. Sibal also announced that at the current price point of $35, there would be 50% subsidy to educational institutions, which will effectively bring down the cost to only Rs750. Govt. is planning to give the above laptop under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan which is covering crores of students. This laptop will be charged by an sleeker solar panel and Rs.1500 cost does not include solar panel cost. This laptop do not have a hard drive and support only video-web conferencing facility. It also have several latest features like multimedia content viewer (pdf, docx, ods, adp, xls, jpeg, gif,png, bmp, odt, zip, AVCHD, AVI, AC3), searchable Pdf reader, unzip 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. Initially it will be manufactured in Taiwan and later on in India.

It seems that in coming years laptop will be sold on every street corner by street hawkers because it is available at very nominal price and every child will become a technocrat using this laptop.

This invention will bring a major change not only in technical market but in education sector and reduce the pollution because we are able to save thousand of trees and in turn our forests and animals leaving in these forests.

GOOD INITIATIVES AND BEST OF LUCK TO MR. SIBAL AND IIT, IISC EXPERTS.

Laptop

Currently their are so many brands of Desktop / laptops are available in the market like Acer, Dell, IBM, Zenith, Sahara, HCL, HP, Compaq. The range starts from Rs.20000/- (Rs. Twenty thousand only) approximately and goes upto lacs depending upon the configuration, brand / after sales support. In general market generally people goes for assembled computer when they are under pressure to buy the computers but have less budget and in the reverse case the branded computers is offered.

In corporate sector generally HP (Hewlett Packard) is known for giving good service and mostly institutions/companies who have a budget of middle size for IT opts for HP.

In last few years sale of Desktop and Laptop have increased tremendously but can any one predict whether the sale of laptop / desktop computers will increase or decrease as the common man is under pressure due to recession/global financial crisis.