There were several cost effective notebook projects which were produced or in progress mainly focused on third world countries. There is the One Laptop Per Child project that includes an inexpensive, low power notebook computer aimed at children as well as their education and learning that has been fairly successful. A new netbook computer is on its way out called the Cherrypal which is supposed to cost $100 targeted primarily at supplying Africa.
More often than not those $100 laptops and netbooks failed at their price point. The $100 quickly becomes near two times the amount once reality sets in. However when you have got commercial netbook computers as cheap as $150 nowadays, a reduced power model can reasonably come to the price point of $100.
This Cherrypal won't have the capacity to run heavy computer apps, nevertheless it will certainly get the job done. Although it merely has a 400 megahertz processor and 256 megabytes of ram, this really is sufficient to operate many different version of Linux distributions.
Whichever operating system choice that is made, it may be best to select a version of Linux which operates Fluxbox or XFCE because these interfaces don't take much resources to run which leaves more ram and processing power for programs. Making use of the thousands of Linux programs offers developing nations free software programs many of which are academic in nature.
Realistically if people in these places could get their hands on a netbook such as the Cherrypal together with access to the internet it will open up an enormous amount of educational as well as business possibilities. There are many educational tools that could be found on quite a few websites which could turn into programs for students that otherwise could have cost large sums of money every year in which one netbook computer like this can supply everything.
Hopefully the $100 price stays as it will give people access to the technologies especially for the academic benefits from this kind of device.
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