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India has come up with the world's cheapest "laptop," a touch-screen computing1 device that costs $35.
印度政府日前推出了一款世界上最便宜的笔记本电脑,这款触摸屏的计算设备售价仅为35美元。
India's Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal this week unveiled the low-cost computing device that is designed for students, saying his department had started talks with global manufacturers to start mass production.
"We have reached a (developmental) stage that today, the motherboard, its chip, the processing, connectivity, all of them cumulatively2(累积地,渐增地) cost around $35, including memory, display, everything," he told a news conference.
He said the touchscreen gadget3(小玩意,小配件) was packed with Internet browsers4, PDF reader and video conferencing facilities but its hardware was created with sufficient flexibility5 to incorporate new components6 according to user requirement.
Sibal said the Linux based computing device was expected to be introduced to higher education institutions from 2011 but the aim was to drop the price further to $20 and ultimately to $10.
The device was developed by research teams at India's premier7 technological8 institutes, the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science.
India spends about three percent of its annual budget on school education and has improved its literacy(读写能力) rates to over 64 percent of its 1.2 billion population but studies have shown many students can barely read or write and most state-run schools have inadequate9(不充分的,不适当的) facilities.
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computing
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gadget
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browsers
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flexibility
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components
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premier
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technological
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