Wednesday, June 29, 2005

India's renaissance: The $100 computer

"In about three months, a little-known company called Novatium plans to offer a stripped-down home computer for about $70 or $75. That is about half the price of the standard 'thin clients' of this kind now sold in India, made possible in part by some novel engineering choices. Adding a monitor doubles the price to $150, but the company will offer used displays to keep the cost down. "

[CNET]

Michael Kanellos at CNet is calling the device the Holy Grail of home computing: "a desktop that will start to bring the Internet to the more than 5 billion people around the world who aren't on it yet."

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