Prices of computers (read PCs) are racing at one heck of a speed . Recently HCL infosystems released the magic sub-10k (Rs. 9990 ) personal computer. Sub-10k is the recent mantra of PC market in the country . Xenitis , a kolkata based company also bought sub-10k Intel based pc to the market. "Computer for Rs. 9990 " based on a processor by Taiwan based VIA Technologies in partnership with esys is also on the cards.
By googling I stumbled upon a article (PDF) , a bit old one but gives interesting insights of low cost PCs , expressing on " A PC for Rs.5000 " ! In fact the author of the article , Rajesh Jain , a tech blogger , with an IIT professor are looking to bring 5K PC to reality (according to article).
This is the specification of the sub-10k PC launched by HCL on Monday. The processor is neither of Intel nor AMD rather one of the processors of VIA technologies. Interestingly the operating system is not a Microsoft product (read windows) . They have opted Linux to keep costs down. I think this brings smiles to those who declared themselves to have "divorced windows and married Linux" , not because of yet another company shipping Linux with its product but for the 'promise to initiate' "open source software centre" in chennai in months time.
In my opinion , this announcement (along with low cost PC) blows trumpet to the IT world that our government is in direction of supporting Open Source products . And the reason being simply to enable the reach of computers and Internet to the mass of people especially to rural parts of our country in cost effective way and help them to enrich their quality of lives.
By googling I stumbled upon a article (PDF) , a bit old one but gives interesting insights of low cost PCs , expressing on " A PC for Rs.5000 " ! In fact the author of the article , Rajesh Jain , a tech blogger , with an IIT professor are looking to bring 5K PC to reality (according to article).
One GHz processor, 128 MB RAM, 40 GB hard disk, 15-inch digital colour monitor, 52X optical drive, keyboard and scroll mouse.
This is the specification of the sub-10k PC launched by HCL on Monday. The processor is neither of Intel nor AMD rather one of the processors of VIA technologies. Interestingly the operating system is not a Microsoft product (read windows) . They have opted Linux to keep costs down. I think this brings smiles to those who declared themselves to have "divorced windows and married Linux" , not because of yet another company shipping Linux with its product but for the 'promise to initiate' "open source software centre" in chennai in months time.
In my opinion , this announcement (along with low cost PC) blows trumpet to the IT world that our government is in direction of supporting Open Source products . And the reason being simply to enable the reach of computers and Internet to the mass of people especially to rural parts of our country in cost effective way and help them to enrich their quality of lives.
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