Indian Government announces $35 laptop

"THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT has cooked up a $35 touchscreen laptop pitched at students.

"The low cost device, which naturally runs Linux, is being readied for production with India's Human resource development minister Kapil Sibal saying that "The motherboard, its chip, the processing, connectivity, all of them cumulatively cost around $35, including memory, display, everything."

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