India looks to produce world's first $10 laptop
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India Looks To Produce World's First $10 Laptop
The efforts thus far have yielded designs for a laptop that would cost about $47; a $10 system remains the ultimate goal.
By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
May 4, 2007 11:00 AM
One hundred dollars for a laptop? Highway robbery, according to policymakers in India.
The country that last year said no to MIT luminary Nicholas Negroponte's plan to introduce portable computers that would sell for a C-note is instead aiming for laptops that would cost $10. That's roughly the price of a ham sandwich in New York.
India's Ministry of Human Resource Development is spearheading the project, with help from Semiconductor Complex, a state-sponsored designer and manufacturer of integrated circuits. Officials from those organizations are presently weighing system designs submitted by an engineering student from India's Vellore Institute of Technology and a researcher from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.
The Times of India on Friday reported that the efforts thus far have yielded designs for a laptop that would cost about $47, while a $10 system remains the ultimate goal.
Last year, Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child Organization submitted a proposal to the Indian government under which the group would have worked to produce laptops for Indian students starting at $100. Indian officials at the time criticized the proposal as insufficiently mature to be taken seriously and rejected it.
Still, other countries in emerging regions have signed on to participate in the OLPC program. Argentina, Brazil, Namibia, and Nigeria are among the countries that are on board.
The OLPC organization has produced a reference design for a $100 laptop that features an AMD Geode processor, a range of open-source software, and an attached hand crank for power generation. The group has said it's also considering other options for power generation, including a foot pedal. -
What's the specs first..
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yeap...good for them.. then can pay high taxes to the corrupted ministers... and bollywood...
post some world's first cheapest actress from bollywood la.... pls pls pls -
Knowing the indians, I bet its going to worth every single cent.
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later china also come up with one cheap laptop
use halfway can see smoke coming out
time for some steam bun -
Free ones from rubbish dumps.
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where where.....?Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:Free ones from rubbish dumps.
If you know where to find -
they now have internet in villages for kids.
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No wonder their country still so out-dated...
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Rich places. And sometimes people throw it outside computer shops, service centres etc.Originally posted by eagle:where where.....? -
can i laugh at them?
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uh .2 hz processor?with like .05mb of ram?without any internal hdd?
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This is a good news as computer and internet have become a modern basic nescessity. I have to admit that some important infos can only be found on the internet especially religious websites.
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if onli they can produce maybe a fujitsu lifebook quality one for $80, i order
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Originally posted by MyPillowTalks:if onli they can produce maybe a fujitsu lifebook quality one for $80, i order
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i not that choosy, if they can produce an Acer Quality @ $50, I Order 10Originally posted by MyPillowTalks:if onli they can produce maybe a fujitsu lifebook quality one for $80, i order -
1mb ram izzit
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linux????
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should be, or maybe the heavily ad microsoft osOriginally posted by SushmaReddy:linux???? -
been hearing about these lagi cheap laptops for poor countries since long time ago...until now havent seen any mass-produced product coming out...maybe just some prototypes...All talk no real action.Originally posted by SushmaReddy:India Looks To Produce World's First $10 Laptop -
Maybe such laptops are low-end ones designed for use in regions where the people usually cannot afford luxury items
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If people are so poor that they go for $10 laptop, don't think they will have enough money to post out the warranty card.
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Um ... is it Intel P I Processor ?
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It has been ''all talk, no action''. It's going to be some time before mass production is possible given the pace it's going.
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Wtf?? Foot pedal??Originally posted by SushmaReddy:The group has said it's also considering other options for power generation, including a foot pedal.