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It is last week, on July 23 that the Minister for Human Resources and the Indian Development Kapil Sibal, presented the prototype of a shelf PC to 35 dollars in manufacturing costs. The goal announced by India is to provide this shelf to all the pupils of the elementary school at the university.
Equipped with a touchscreen of 7 inches, it has of WiFi and a navigator Internet supporting the mode of streaming Flash. Based on Linux, that enables him not to have to pay for the operating system. The other embarked applications are also based on Open Source: an office automation continuation, a reader of pdf, a multimedia player (audio, images and video) and even a solution of videoconference which supposes the presence of a webcam. In addition to WiFi, it has a port USB and a reader of memory cards, because of course at this price, not question of hard drive or important built-in memory. Side of the options, there will be the possibility of feeding it by solar panels for the zones in the process of development for example.
But the shelf with 35 dollars, for the Indians, the goal is not reached. They, even hope to decrease the price with 20 to see 10 dollars. At this price, will put you to me a paperboard!
Equipped with a touchscreen of 7 inches, it has of WiFi and a navigator Internet supporting the mode of streaming Flash. Based on Linux, that enables him not to have to pay for the operating system. The other embarked applications are also based on Open Source: an office automation continuation, a reader of pdf, a multimedia player (audio, images and video) and even a solution of videoconference which supposes the presence of a webcam. In addition to WiFi, it has a port USB and a reader of memory cards, because of course at this price, not question of hard drive or important built-in memory. Side of the options, there will be the possibility of feeding it by solar panels for the zones in the process of development for example.
But the shelf with 35 dollars, for the Indians, the goal is not reached. They, even hope to decrease the price with 20 to see 10 dollars. At this price, will put you to me a paperboard!
