The laptop market has certainly changed. Laptops have historically been seen as a luxury, with steep price tags rendering them inaccessible to those with a lower budget. Now, however, there has been an unprecedented increase in the number of cheap laptops flooding the market allowing laptops to be accessible to almost everyone.

According to retail analyst GfK the average laptop price in 2007 was £477 but there are cheap laptops on the market with price tags as low as £99, Elonex's 'The One' for example. But how can such cheap laptops be made? According to some reports the answer is open source software. "Open-source software can be freely swapped or modified by anyone who wants it", said Mike Harris of the Sunday Times. "An open-source operating system is ideal for low-cost devices as it performs well on less powerful, cheaper hardware".

The benefits of cheap laptops are hard to deny. The ability to manufacture laptops at such a low price has led to the creation of the 'One Laptop per Child' initiative which aims to create and distribute free laptops to the world's poorest children.

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