Comment The article is a bit misleading (Score 2, Informative) 310
Actulally, this is the project by Thai government offered to Thai citizen who can not afford buying the computer at current market price. It is limited to one computer per household only. (you must show them supported documents, eg. the house registration, ID, etc)
The buyer can buy at full price (cash) or via financing service offered by government's bank (24 months @~1000 baht/month for notebook and 490 Baht/month for Desktop)
Current specs:
1) Desktop 10900 Baht(Celeron 1.0 GHz, 128MB Ram, CDRom, 20GB Harddisk,15"monitor,speakers,keyboard,fax/modem)
2) Notebook 19500 Baht (VIA 800MHz, 128MB Ram, 20GB Harddisk, 10.4"TFT, speakers,fax/modem,fast ethernet, no floppydisk & CDrom)
The desktop will be manufactured by ~12 Local Brand suppliers while the notebook is currently manufactured by HP (OEM by HP sell with brand ICT) and the government is negotiating with other manufacturer.
All computers will be sold under brand "ICT" not HP or anything else.
I hope this should clear up some confusion.
The buyer can buy at full price (cash) or via financing service offered by government's bank (24 months @~1000 baht/month for notebook and 490 Baht/month for Desktop)
Current specs:
1) Desktop 10900 Baht(Celeron 1.0 GHz, 128MB Ram, CDRom, 20GB Harddisk,15"monitor,speakers,keyboard,fax/modem)
The desktop will be manufactured by ~12 Local Brand suppliers while the notebook is currently manufactured by HP (OEM by HP sell with brand ICT) and the government is negotiating with other manufacturer.
All computers will be sold under brand "ICT" not HP or anything else.
I hope this should clear up some confusion.
