Belarus launches mass production of own laptops

MINSK. Dec 22 (Interfax) - Belarusian-made laptops went on sale in Minsk on December 22, two days after their mass production began at the Gorizont (Horizon) enterprise.

"The creation of a Belarusian laptop was an instruction of the president [Alexander Lukashenko], which has been carried out in full. Minsk congratulates Gorizont on starting mass production of yet another new product. This is very important, this is about import-substitution," a deputy chair of the Minsk City Executive Committee, Nadezhda Lazarevich, was quoted by the BelTA state news agency as saying at the sale launch at a Minsk shopping center on Thursday.

Gorizont and the city authorities have big plans to sell laptops, including in Russia, she said.

The first released model, H-book MAK4, has been described by the manufacturer as a modern computer comparable to big-name brands by quality and productivity. Its hardware was designed on the basis of the 11th-generation Intel Core processor.