ELCOT has brought back Student laptop offer. It’s a Linux based (SUSE Linux) laptop, with a nice configuration, and an excellent price tag.

They’ve lined up a very impressive set of software applications as part of the default install.

If you’re a student(including ones doing a correspondence course), and are planning to buy a laptop, you can order one online at

http://www.elcot.in/StudentLaptop2008/index.php

Even if you’re not buying , you might want to see the funny picture of the evaluation process ( What strange tests people do ). One of the models seem to be from Acer.

They’re purchasing about 1 lakh laptops, so, it would add 1 lakh linux laptops to tamilnadu linux users population.

For last years offer , visit http://blog.techieant.com/2007/09/29/elcot-student-laptop-offer/