Launches 28th Feb at the Education Show 2008
Low-cost laptops are becoming all the rage in 2008 and now there's a new "ONE" on the block.
Designed by Elonex, the Elonex ONE laptop is dubbed as "the UK’s first sub £100 laptop aimed at the Education Sector".
Thanks to negotiations with the UK Government, Elonex has managed to make the low-cost laptop VAT exempt, one of the key factors in helping the laptop reach its £99 price point.
The ONE weighs in at 2.2lbs, features a 7" screen, 1GB of memory and provides a three hour battery. It'll run a Linux operating system and in an interesting twist, the display can be detached from the keyboard. Elonex state that with the screen detached, it can be used as a tablet PC. We have got to get our hands on Elonex's definition of Tablet PCs mind you, as the ONE doesn't provide touch functionality.
Sam Goult, Marketing Manager at Elonex, comments "This pioneering technology has been developed to help nurture our children’s education, to integrate them into the modern digital world that we all now belong to. The ONE removes the cost barrier that has prevented the one-laptop-per-person, large-scale uptake of computers in the education system that has for so long been just a pipe-dream. Investment in digital technology is paramount to help the next generation achieve their full potential."
The Elonex ONE will be launched at The Education Show held at Birmingham's NEC from February 28th to March 1st.
Official product page: Elonex.co.uk/laptop