It is said that in a conventional laptop, half price is the cost of assembly, packaging (plastic and cardboard) and advertising citation needed . Fifty per cent, a large proportion is spent on expensive hardware afford to be wasteful to run operating systems and storage memory hard drive, processor and graphics resources (Windows Vista is the best example). The consideration of all the redundant hardware can be removed simply in large part, comes the concept of machine just for your purpose (educational) and not for general use. The lack of advertising and the costs of mounting a machine simple in design work together to achieve a perfect balance. However, there is no commercial development as understood in most PCs, but is an educational project. Despite this marketing has been done since the end of the year 2007 in the United States.

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