So, finally a computer device, which can help us to browse the net, to have a video conferencing, to save or to write any text and to do all the other things which are supposed to be the basic necessities from a computer, will be available at $15 [1500 Rupees].
This astonishing news was disposed by HRD minister Sh. Kapil Sibal. It was really a great effort by the government researchers and obviously, it would not have been possible with the young minds from IITs and IISc. Students form B.Tech and M.Tech batch also played a vital role in developing the motherboard and the other key components and no doubt they all did this under the inspiration and guidance of their mentors, professors and experts.
This is really a great achievement for our country, keeping in mind about the $100 laptop developed by MIT students, which were used non-profit One Children One Laptop Program. Now, we can really estimate about the excess price marked for iPads by Apple. It was also mentioned during this release that the research will still go on to reduce these prices till $20 or $10. This will be really beneficial for the poor students, for whom having a computer was not possible.
During the release HRD minister showed the prototype of that product and it was even smaller than a iPad, So atleast it has a single advantage over iPad (excluding the price). It was also mentioned that this device will run on a variant of Linux, it will not have any internal storage but you can store any data on external memory card, it also has a feature of video conferencing, it has an in-built word processor which will support the formats like TXT, DOC and DOCX and a web browser. Apart from these it will also have a multimedia viewer which can read the formats like BMP, GIF, AC3, AVI, BMP and many more.
But still some of the info was not disclosed like, we don’t know about the processor which will be used and we also don’t know what RAM will it have. Till now only the prototype has been released, it has not gone under manufacturing yet as they are still searching the mass producer of this device. I am sure that once it gets into market, people who do not use their laptop form heavy games and applications, will go for these products and it may also happen that the users may buy it and keep it along with their other laptops, because of its size and weight.
Whenever we think of installing a new Operation system through pen drives, then we always go for the tools which can convert the default file system of FAT32 into NTFS file system. So, these tools should be portable and small in size.
Our operating system formats the USB drive into FAT32 file system, by default, but at the time of installing an operating system, we need to format our pen drives on NTFS file system. It also happens that some times our OS rejects to format our USB drive, so we can go for this tool.
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When you will launch this tool, then it will automatically detect the pen drives attached to your system. I does not matter whether you launch this tool after attaching the pen drive or before attaching it. As soon as launch this tool, it will keep on checking your system for the available USB storage devices. If there are more than one detected devices, then you can select one by the name enlisted in the scroll down menu available in the top of the application window.
The you have an option to change the file system of that USB drive while formatting it. It has got two options one if FAT32 and the other one is NTFS file system. Choose the suitable file system option. Then you have another option, which can change the name of you USB drive, though it can be done very easily in a default way, but you can do it using this tool, if you are formatting you USB for a specific purpose.
Now, after going through all the above steps, you will find two options for formatting your USB storage device and one of them has to be chosen on the basis of time which can be given for the formatting of your USB drive. So, you can either select Quick Scan option or Enable compression (this one will work only when you choose NTFS file system).
The size of this freeware is really very small, i.e. 48 Kb and it has all the above mentioned expected features like it is portable, it is very light to use and its response time is also very low. This tool is compatible with all the versions of Windows as it has been checked with Windows 7 32-bit Ultimate edition. So, go for it and make yourself feel free with all the file system problems.