Linux-laptop of 77 Euros
A laptop for 77 Euros” If it lies at Nicholas Negroponte, professor at the American university MEASURED, comes there a very cheap portable computer for the developing countries. Price per to pieces: 77 Euros. Only then source by purchase of minimally 1 million to pieces. Negroponte revealed the plan on the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Davos, during an interview with Reason Herring.
The project gets the support of a number of large businesses, below which Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Google, Motorola and Samsung. Much technical characteristics are not yet known. Anyhow the laptop is rested with a 14-inch color screen, a processor from AMD and a Linux-variant. The whole may no longer expenses then 100 dollars (77 Euros).
A prototype of the layer price computer is must roll almost ready, the first production frost specimen 18 months from now of the tie. Authorities only institutions can place an order. Private persons are deterred in any case to take thanks to the minimum quantity off specimens. Furthermore it is yet but the question or much poor countries self a monster order of 100 million dollars (77 million Euros) can permit.
Yet thinks Negroponte that the project good is for eager 800 million to pieces. He hopes to get shortly the Chinese ministry of education as first customer in. The MEASURES-professor want also adapted educational software offer that, in combination with the laptop, the textbooks on school must replace.
AMD has built up already only experience with layer price pc's. last year presented the chip business the Personal Internet Communicator, a basis-pc without monitor for 185 dollars (142 Euros), that has been intended for growth marketsss growth marketsss growth marketsss in Azi and South-america.