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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Pretty minuscule, It must not do much.
Dale
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I remember my first pc, a Intel DX 33 with 170MB HDD and 2 MB RAM running Win 3.1. While Word and Excel weren't very flashy, I did not think of it as slow. It did everything I wanted and I kept working with it untill 1998, since I did not have a lot of money (was still a HJigh School student back then).
The intel Atom with 800 MHz uses 0,65 Watt. Using a slower processor, say 200 MHz, you could get as low as 0,15 Watt. Add some flash memory (the Indian pc won't have a HDD) and a slow Display, and voila: a cheap pc capable of running all essential programs.
And now imagine that in hands of people who wouldn't ever have been able to afford a different computer...