Lenovo Plans to sell $199 PC

PC maker Lenovo is planning to sell ultra-cheap computers for $199 in China’s vast rural market. Lenovo’s low cost PC would include keyboard, mouse and operation system, but users will have to plug-in their television set as a monitor. Lenovo is not the first to announce low cost computers; Dell has already announced their plans to sell machines ranging from $223-$515

Though Lenovo’s low cost computers ranging from $199 – $399 are just slightly cheaper than Dell’s offerings, they still have the potential to throw Dell out of the market, as the average yearly income of rural China is just $500 a year.

It’ll be interesting to see which operating system will be offered with this low cost PCs. Microsoft recently dropped prices for many versions of Windows Vista in China to fight piracy; however, it would do a great favor for Linux, if Lenovo or Dell chooses to offer Linux as an operating system. Linux performs better than Windows on low-end hardware. So I guess, it’ll be Linux for rural China. Not much is known about the hardware configuration of these low cost computers.

Source: Arstechnica

This post was published by on August 5, 2007

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  • http://www.nirmaltv.com Nirmal

    Low cost PCs only for china? When is it coming to India?

  • http://www.tech4dummies.net praveen

    Its good hear to lenovo is selling a laptop for 199$ in rural china, when can we expect the same price in india