India is planning eight euro laptop.

What you get for eight euro? Approximately 5.7 liters of petrol, two packets of cigarettes, four frozen pizzas - or a portable computer, so the plan of the Indian government. On Tuesday, the low-cost laptop will be presented. Some details have leaked by now.

 

Poorly equipped, the Indian notebook, despite its price not be. From at least two gigabytes of RAM, an Ethernet networking port, Wi-Fi capabilities and expandable memory reported "
engadget. "The power is with only two watts, a value of the commercial notebook users can only dream of. standard equipment rather approve 15 to 25 watts.

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OLPC laptops - for a hundred dollars - are too expensive for India. Now, a laptop computer are presented, the only cost eight euro

As it creates the device, with so little energy ends meet, is still completely unclear. Outside of the development company responsible, nobody has the super-cheap laptops to face. Above all, the screen raises puzzling. Normally costs have a mobile monitor more here than the entire device will cost. The same is true of course for the Memory: 2 GB on sale billigstenfalls from about 15 euro.

Commissioned the development of the computer from the Indian Ministry of Education. Its stated goal: Every Indian household should be such a laptop can afford. The ambitious goal of more years of development was, therefore, the price at 500 rupees, converted eight euro specified. This would make the notebook even called OLPC, the One Laptop per Child project, far below, offering its mini-computers for $ 100 (80 euros) on the market wants.

Virtual TU

Still, however, are both projects of their targets far away. The cost of an OLPC laptop is approximately twice as high as planned, amounts to almost $ 200. And the Indian unit is not quite as cheap as it should be. Education Minister R.P. Agrawal said the "
Times of India ", nor would the price at 16 euros, but will fall as soon as the mass production start. Then it is so cheap that" parents to their children so easily buy a device and can give ".

And that is precisely the objective. Like the OLPC, the laptop primarily to serve the educational opportunities to improve. The OLPC for costs, although relatively low, many governments in emerging countries is still too high. The corresponding contents, the Indian government to provide inexpensive leave. Unspecified sources indicate that the government already has agreements with four major publishing houses taken.

Their books will be digitized and on the educational "Sakshat" are loaded, from where they are on the low-cost laptops that can be downloaded. Five percent of these books will also be loaded free of charge. But in these measures provides ministers Agrawal apparently only the beginning. "The ultimate goal is a virtual University of Technology to build," he said to Pressevertreten.

Until it is so far will have to learn anything but patience. Three years has led to the development of the device in India lasted, now have the first prototypes are tested, so Agarawal. The goal was to make the device in six months on the market can be.

550 million potential online students

And that is apparently needed. Education is one of the priority tasks with which the Indian government faces. Details of the "
Financial Times "that 550 million Indians are under 25 years old, urgently need modern training facilities. The eight-euro laptop could serve as a vehicle to lead the country at the same time, modern networking and educational opportunities in the last corner to bring.

Like the look but in detail, we will only know on Tuesday. Then, the prototype of Tirupati in South India the first public showing. And then he must also prove whether he really as a nation is capable computer.