There have been many cost effective laptop projects which have been created or in progress mostly focused on third world countries. There is the One Laptop Per Child project that has an affordable, low power laptop dedicated to small children as well as their education that has been relatively effective. A new netbook computer is coming out named the Cherrypal which is designed to cost $100 focused primarily at selling to Africa.
More often than not these $100 laptop computers and netbooks failed at their price point. The $100 soon becomes close to two times the price once reality takes hold. However when you have got commercial netbooks as cheap as $150 right now, a lower power variant can realistically hit the price point of $100.
This Cherrypal wouldn't be capable to operate large computer applications, but it will get the job done. Though it merely has a 400 megahertz processor and 256 megabytes of ram, this really is sufficient to run many different version of Linux distributions.
Whichever operating system selection that's made, it would be most effective to select a version of Linux that runs Fluxbox or XFCE as these interfaces do not take much resources to operate which in turn results in more ram and processing power for apps. Making use of the thousands Linux apps provides developing nations zero cost software many of which are educational in nature.
Realistically if people in these countries can get their hands on a netbook like the Cherrypal along with access to the internet it may well open up a whole lot of educational as well as business opportunities. There are so many educational tools that could be available on quite a few web sites that may turn into programs for students which otherwise could have cost large sums of money annually in which a single netbook computer like this can provide all of it.
Hopefully the $100 price remains because it would give people access to the technology particularly for the academic advantages from this kind of device.
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