Testimonials

For the computational power and storage that this laptop offers, its affordable price is a pleasant surprise. Its real strength is its expandable array of useful applications and content, packed on the open source Ubuntu by Prof. Kannan's team. Indeed, it is this combination that provides a potent device to drive the national agenda for digital inclusion.

The laptop offers a completely usable and affordable personal computing solution to anybody who wants to take advantage of the vast educational content on the Internet. It feels sturdy and is comfortable to type on, yet light enough to carry in a bag of books. It runs browser applications which will be the window to educational content, on WiFi, with good performance. Screen and sound quality is also perfectly acceptable for listening to video lectures. The laptop has the potential for giving a level playing field to those bright students of our country who cannot afford expensive laptops of their own.

This laptop is a clone of the MacBook Air 11 inch, which I've used for many years till earlier this year. I can say that the build quality of the laptop (at first look at least) compares reasonably with the much more expensive MacBook; and the quality per unit price is excellent. The keyboard felt good, sound was clear and reasonably loud, and the screen quality was good. I tried out several programs on Ubuntu, including browsers and Eclipse. Performance was very good. The fact that the system runs off Flash makes it much more responsive than the one running off hard disk. This laptop would be perfect for general purpose use. For hard core programming, I'd love to see a 14 inch version with a higher resolution screen (at least equal to the 13 inch MacBook Air). Expandability of storage to 128GB via MicroSD is quite adequate for all educational purposes (this is what my MacBook Air had, and I never managed to fill it), although people may want more space for videos and such.

It is great to have a fully functional laptop, with high quality sound/video and high RAM (4GB), all for just Rs. 10k. This should make learning very affordable and I am excited that this has been possible thanks to efforts at IIT Bombay. Both, students and professionals including me, will surely make good use of this great quality and economical device.

I congratulate you and your collaborators for realizing a prototype of a very affordable (low-cost) laptop, with a price-tag of just about Rs. 10,000 that promises to offer an extremely capable and versatile platform combining the open source OS (Linux-Ubuntu), Scientific and Engineering software tools (simulation, modeling, computing, programming, scripting, internet, office productivity, educational tools, audio-video support etc.) running on a Quad-core Intel CPU with comfortable 4 GB RAM and large enough NAND-FLASH and/or a suitably big hard-disk. The design and look & feel is sleek enough so as to avoid any conspicuous feeling of using a low-cost device. Most importantly, with the proposed price tag of close to Rs. 10,000 it could as well become a mandatory laptop in engineering and science education. The whole set of students could be expected to have a uniform computing environment. That could be a game-changer for computer-assisted teaching in regular classrooms. The powerful battery and a very slim and light-weight design makes it feasible for students to carry it around, use it anywhere. Promises to be a great enabler for financially less privileged, and would help create a level playing field indeed.

After extensively testing/using the sleek laptop, I am extremely happy with both its performance and appearance. It is light-weight yet powerful with a long battery backup - critical aspects which determines its extended usability in an academic environment. The processor is extremely good and can be used to run programs and third-party software without a hitch. I could run multiple programs simultaneously without breaking into a sweat or any perceivable heating. The new design is sleek and comparable to any of the top-end models available in the market. Overall, I am extremely impressed with the performance and utility of the laptop and perceive it as an immense enabler for students, both in terms of academic and extra-curricular activities.

The low cost laptop designed by IIT Bombay offers a complete solution for personal computing and easily affordable by all students. Our Institution has purchased 350 laptops and we are using this laptop very effectively for most of our laboratory classes, software training, online classes and other admin related works. Audio quality is also perfect for listening to video lectures and projecting in classrooms. Both students and faculty of our Institution are very much benefitted and satisfied with this economical and efficient device.

I'm glad to give my feedback about the laptop developed by IIT Bombay. Firstly, I would like to congratulate the entire team for a wonderful product. The laptop is amazing, value for money and very light in weight around 1 KG, good for work at move and has around 4 hours battery backup. It has 2 USB ports and HDMI port for better file transfer. Good connectivity via Wifi & Bluetooth. With good security features. Above all Fosse software’s are inbuilt, were programs like Python, Qcad, Open foam etc.. Could be learnt and practiced. I would recommend the laptop for students, beginners, coders can make use of it to a better extent for learning purpose.

The Affordable Laptops have proved to be a boon to students of Salesian College Sonada in the Darjeeling Hills who procured it. My students received it with great enthusiasm and used it very profitably during the Covid-19 lock down on-line sessions. In fact, they did their on-line semester examinations in July 2020 on the Affordable Laptops. In fact, more students are eagerly waiting for Affordable Laptops.

• The laptop is very handy and weighs less, making it comfortable to be carried across in office bags. The internet connectivity from wifi of laptop is equally good in comparison with any other branded laptops. The display of the laptop is vivid and has been very comfortable to the eyes too. The pre-loaded Debian Linux OS based software package is also comfortable for usage.

We are realy surprised to have a fully functional, light weight, high performance laptop for an affordable price. This is an asset to the students for online and distance learning which will be a supplement to regular class room teaching.

The laptops purchased under this Affordable Laptop project, IIT Bombay is an eye opener for colleges located in rural setup. We have purchased 100 affordable laptops for our College, all are working in good condition and are easy to use. It is amazing to congratulate Prof. Kannan Moudgalya’s Spoken Tutorial program team for their tireless effort to offer IT training courses for all age groups to learn open source software, for our students who are mostly from rural area who may not be in a position to afford to pay and learn. I had this vision to provide an exclusive MOOCS Lab in our college inorder to support the students, so that they learn as many courses as possible during their tenure as a student of our campus and to support their skill acquisition by making them learning programming and software as much as they can. This will make them pass out with strong graduate attributes expected in the 21st century learning concepts. May this team come out more successful projects to reach the unreach student population of our Nation! Jai hind!

This laptop offers a totally usable and reasonable individualized computing answer for anyone who needs to experience the immense instructive substance on the Internet. It helped us a lot at a critical time when we were thinking of establishing a MOOCs lab exclusively for online learning with 100 laptops. Spoken Tutorial courses are made available to our students through this facility. The laptop runs program applications required for education flawlessly. The top most wonderful concept is that the laptop is that it is affordable price tag which in my opinion will be a help the students who can't bear the cost of buying a PC of their own, especially for those rural areas. We thank our College management for making such productive infrastructure available for the students and thanks to IIT Bombay team their support.

Immense gratitude to IIT Bombay who had provided us with Laptops with most reliable and affordable cost. It was helpful in setting up a dedicated MOOCS lab for Online Learning. It was such a beneficial one for our students to get done with their Online Certificate Courses.

Sincere gratitude to IIT, Mumbai team for providing a wonderful, easy to carry, handy machine at reasonable cost with perfect quality and lot of useful software which makes digital learning easier. It extends the opportunities for faculties and students to achieve high in digital teaching learning platform.

My Heartfelt Gratitude to Professor Dr Kannan Moudgalya Sir and his team, who worked on the invention of prettiest prototype. It was developed to fulfill the needs of the students beyond their economy. Affordable Think book Laptop was very useful in conducting Bioinformatics practical sessions. Now everyone is in need of an affordable laptop for e-learning. It is a perfect device providing all services equally by the high end models. I was very much satisfied with the performance of this affordable laptop developed by IIT Bombay.

I admire the speed and sound quality of this cost effective and portable laptop. It’s a light-weighted, affordable and flexible machine. This device has good processor which renders good speed. Debian Linux is the most appropriate operating system for this laptop. Kudo to IIT Bombay team in making all the device drivers, especially that of the audio driver in making it work so nicely on such a system, which is huge challenge in other low-cost variants. The laptop also has opened the door to many students in effectively making use of the online courses. It is really used as a knowledge supplement for students and academician. I am extremely happy with both its performance and appearance.

It is a great thing to provide a laptop with all the needed software at an affordable cost to the students from different backgrounds. This makes learning affordable and interesting. This laptop comes with a Linux Operating System and has a lot of open-source software pre-installed. With its high configuration, it is possible to run multiple programs simultaneously without any glitches. Overall I am most satisfied with its performance and quality. For Students and Academicians, it is a source of knowledge that helps to grow academically successful in learning and teaching.

It is a lightweight laptop rendering good quality sound & video with decent power and storage backup features. The sleek design makes it easy to carry it around anywhere. It is an immense enabler for students for both academic and extra-curricular activities.

This laptop offers a completely usable and affordable computing platform for us. It has given us a complete solution with a vast advantage on educational basis. Mainly its price is so affordable and it's very comfortable to type on, yet light enough to carry. This laptop would be very useful for general purpose. Sometimes it's great for us to have a fully functional laptop with a good performance too. It helps both in terms of academics and extra-curricular activities. Overall, the students will make good use of this affordable laptop.

I feel excited to have such a compact laptop at an affordable price with all the needed functionalities. I couldn't find any flaws while running multiple programs simultaneously. This good quality laptop accomplishes all my academic needs such as low-cost references, educational videos. It performs well in the Wi-Fi network too. Undoubtedly this low-cost device makes students of all backgrounds to be easily access relevant tool for their educational purpose through its organized bundle of pre-installed open source software.

Life of a college student without a laptop is quite difficult. But thanks to the IIT Bombay Professor Dr. Kannan Maudgalya and his team for inventing this affordable laptop. It is a 11.6″ laptop, based on an atom quad core processor. It has 4GB RAM, 64GB storage space, and most importantly, 10 hours of time, thanks to a 10,000 mAh battery. It has two USB ports, a mini HDMI port and a microSD card slot. It also has wifi and Bluetooth. This laptop comes with Debian Linux operating system and a lot of useful software, such as Libre Office, Latex, Scilab, OpenModelica, Inscape, GIMP, Blender, OpenFOAM, eSim, Synfig Studio, and various editors and browsers. Our college administration established the MOOCS laboratory with over 100 laptops for our e-learning purpose. I checked for its performance, it was smooth. Can't see any lagging or overheating. This laptop is actually very cute and light weight. The price of this laptop is too low for its performance. I would love to buy it one for my personal use.

It's really very easy to access this laptop which comes with so many special features at an affordable prices. We can learn many topics in online through these laptops, thanks to the well-built wifi feature in it. Apart from our academic studies, we learned some extra-curricular activities with the availability of network connections on these laptops. We could learn the topics as we are interested in by the means of visual and audio form. The laptops are user friendly and easy to access. The main thing is providing these laptops to a large number of students at the same time. It is very easy for interactive online learning, coding, making presentation, etc. We are thankful for our institution for having such an impressive lab with student friendly laptops.

The laptop offers a completely usable and affordable personal computing solution to anybody who wants to take advantage of the vast educational content on the Internet. It is good in appearance and is very easy to carry with a long battery backup. The price is affordable yet it has full functioning performance. This laptop is very efficient for both students and professionals and it is a good economical device.

The laptop is of high quality and helps the students who cannot afford to own a laptop of their own. The laptop is comfortable to work with, to carry around and also it has got a powerful battery. And through its connection of internet it allows the students to explore courses of their interest and enhance their skills.

I am extremely happy with its performance and aesthetic appearance. This laptop provides a complete practical and reasonable personal computing solution to anybody who is willing to take benefit of the educational content from Internet sources. The IIT Bombay Affordable laptop seems like a promising product for making learning very affordable and an excellent product, useful for economically weaker students. It offers an extremely capable and versatile platform combining the open source OS (Linux-Debian), Scientific and Engineering software tools (simulation, modeling, computing, programming, scripting, internet, office productivity, educational tools, audio-video support etc.) running on a Quad-core Intel CPU with comfortable 4 GB RAM and large enough NAND-FLASH and/or a suitably big hard-disk. Hence it was so beneficial for computer-assisted teaching in regular classrooms. The processor was extremely good, convenient to run programs and third-party software without a hitch. I could run multiple programs simultaneously without breaking into a sweat or any perceivable heating. I am extremely impressed with the performance and utility of the laptop, both in terms of academic and extra-curricular activities.

IIT Bombay’s Affordable laptop is low cost, lightweight and easy to carry. Audio and video quality is good, and extremely helpful in attending online FDP/Workshop/seminar/etc, particularly during COVID 19 pandemic period. The laptop has almost all software’s that are used daily.

I am using the affordable laptop regularly and am finding it very useful, comfortable and light weight. The performance is perfect with good power backup and extended storage facilities.

The low-cost laptop has good hardware specification and really a good device to satisfy the IoT based educational needs.

The affordable laptop is light weight, portable, compact and is very flexible to operate loaded with a lot of useful Open Source tools.

This laptop is loaded with open source software realted to ECE (Electronics and Communication Enginering) like Scilab, Python and LaTeX which is quite useful. It is lightweight and handy and is suitable for Digital Signal Processing, Digital image processing lab experiments using Scilab software. The Debian Linux based OS installed on this laptop makes it bug free. Antivorus is not required. This laptop is also used by Faculty in my College for official work for office documentation using LibreOffice, downloading teachincal documents, writing research proposals, etc.

The laptop received from IIT Bombay is useful for conducting experiments in power systems lab and is also used for conducting Spoken Tutorial based IT training programs. It can also be used for extensive documentation, presentation, etc. This laptop is extremely light-weighted which makes it easy to carry and the cost is affordable.

The laptop was very useful especially during the time I spent in preparing the curriculum for BOS. I found it to be very comfortable for use and easy to carry.

IIT Bombay affordable laptop comes with the Debian Linux operating system and a lot of useful software, such as LibreOffice, LaTeX, Scilab, OpenModelica, Inkscape, GIMP, Blender, OpenFOAM, eSim, Synfig Studio, and various editors and browsers. It is a very good computing aid at an affordable cost.

It is low cost laptop with more features. It has 4GB RAM, 32 GB NAND flash, an expansion slot through which one can attach an optional 2.5" HDD/SDD, and most importantly, 10 hours of time, thanks to a 10,000 mAh battery. It has two USB ports, a mini HDMI port and a microSD card slot. It also has wifi and bluetooth. These laptops are used in our computer labs for training stuents on various programming languages like C, Java, Python. We also conduct Online test using the affordable laptop.

The Affordable laptop is very slim and light-weight makes it feasible for the faculty members and students to carry it around, use it anywhere. The price of the laptop is very minimum, with more features and benefits.

IIT Bombay’s affordable laptop is easy to carry to class room and labs for demonstration and other academic activities. Students able to use the laptop effectively for doing lab experiments and other academic activities.

The processor in this laptop is extremely good and can run multiple programs simultaneously without breaking. I am extremely happy with its performance, appearance, its light-weight and powerful battery backup.

With the price of Rs. 10,000 the laptop is truly affordable to economically weaker section of people, particularly students. It will surely help the economic weaker section of our society in getting digital knowledge.

This laptop is perfect for general purpose use and practicing lab programs. It also has option to extend storage space based on requirements.

The affordable laptop is Extremely helpful in handling theory and lab sessions for first year engineering students. Open source software available in the laptop is useful in teaching python programming. Easy to carry to class rooms and laboratories when ever needed.

This laptop has a KDE based GUI which makes Debian Linux OS more user friendly. The battery when fully charged lasts for one complete day. The office productivilty suite installed on this machine is excellent and the files created are compatible with windows. An excellent light weight and compact product at an affordable price.

This laptop offers excellent wifi connectivity. The slim design makes it easy to carry. The software bundle clubbed along with the Linux OS is a retreat. LibreOffice Writer is user friendly. Scilab runs smoothly on this machine.

The IIT Bombay's affordable laptop is quite slim, handy and also affordable, with long time battery backup. By using this laptop I have conducted many number of virtual classes to the students and prepared the question paper for conducting exams through online mode. It was very important for academicians especially for those who are in travelling time for their personal work to complete the daily task on time even in their busy schedule.

We have been using the affordable laptop developed by IIT Bombay for conducting classes and workshops for our students. In terms of usage, it handles all the software we use for research purposes, with ease. It's very light and has a good battery backup.

We are regularly using the said Laptop for our department work and for teaching programing to our students. We have also seen students using the Laptop for submitting their online assignments. Registering regular attendance of our College through our (internal) portal is also done using the affordable laptop. It is a user friendly device with Linux OS and a great boon for teachers and students.

The affordable laptop is highly useful for conducting academic programs and for documentational . I’m highly satisfied with its performance.

A Price worthy invention by IIT Bombay specifically for the students who are under privileged. The product is so amazing at such a low cost which comes at a price that almost anyone could buy. It comes with pre-installed array of software over the Debian Linux operating system which includes LibreOffice, LaTeX, Scilab, OpenModelica, Inkscape, GIMP, Blender, OpenFOAM, eSim, Synfig Studio, and various editors and browser, making it unique and the best product, which will help enhance the quality of education at all level. We used this laptop for spoken tutorial training, Virtual class and exam assessment purposes. The performance of this laptop is excellent.