Cut-price laptop unveiled for students

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers unveiled a US$100, hand-cranked laptop computer on the World Information Society in Tunis Nov 16. The laptop is about the size of a textbook and operates at 500 MHz, about half the processor speed of commercial laptops. The charity organizations and governments will send them for free to impoverished schoolchildren in developing countries.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers unveiled a US$100, hand-cranked laptop computer on the World Information Society in Tunis Nov 16.