Toshiba reveals Vista Laptop

Laptop Computer maker Toshiba have unvieled the first laptop made especially for Windows new operating system Vista at this weeks Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Toshiba spent two years with Microsoft developing the Laptop, which will be released later this month.

$100 laptops to be made available to Public

The One Laptop Per Child project backers will make the $100 laptop available to the general public, on one condition. They have to Buy two, one for themselves and another to go to the developing world.

Five million of the laptops will be delivered to developing nations this summer, in one of the most ambitious educational exercises ever undertaken.

Michalis Bletsas, chief connectivity officer for the project, said they were working with eBay to sell the machine.

The first countries to sign up to buying the machine, which is officially dubbed XO, include Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan and Thailand. The Laptop was made to be low cost, durable and easy to use.