£99 laptop launched in UK
Mar. 3 – The ONE laptop computer by Elonex was unveiled at the Education Show in Birmingham.
The Linux-based computer, aimed primarily at the education sector, comes equipped with word processing software, email, spreadsheets and wireless access to the internet.
Reuters Technology correspondent Matt Cowan reports.
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- The $100 laptop is being launched in Birmingham.
- It’s aimed at university students.
- The company has an altruistic reason for producing this machine.
- Price doesn’t stop school children accessing the Internet.
- The laptop has limited ‘on board’ memory.
- Extra memory can be added.
- This is done using a small hand-held device.
- The band gives 15 gigabytes of extra memory.
- Elonex can produce up to 200,000 £99 laptops by June.
- Half of these have already been sold.
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