India Develops 10 Dollar Laptop for Students

[newconroer]

Kinda reminds me of the OLPC. "O ya we are gonna have like laptops for every child and they will only be $100. It's gonna be sweet!" 2 months later, "So ya, we kinda went over budget, and each laptop is now $250, our bad."

Sound like anything like that will happen here? Maybe!

Sounds like any lame plan where a government tries to step into areas that they don't belong.

Besides, why do students NEED laptops, in India.......?

 

[thoughtdisorder]

That's because the $100 OLPC is an imported item. The logistics, the government's treatment of it as yet another commodity, and taxes, step up costs. How they worked out that $10 equation beats me at this point, but I promise when it does come out, and we know what kind of hardware really goes into making it, there will be some clarity. I'll be the first one to check it out, maybe dissect it, and find out more about how the government is running this scheme.

Makes perfect sense. Thx.

 

[btarunr]

Besides, why do students NEED laptops, in India.......?

The same reason why students from just about anywhere would need it? To access free resources such as Wikis, free text book programs that distribute content as .pdf?

 

[Error 404]

They could mean 2 GB of Flash Memory, not RAM; 2 GB of RAM would be ridiculous, thats more than $10 anyway. Unless its really cheap SDRAM...
I'd buy this, it can't NOT be better than my current laptop.

 

[crazy pyro]

I'd proably buy one too despite owning an NC10 (well, sort of it's in the post.)
Sounds like a really good idea, just wish my school was more IT minded.

 

[mtosev]

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?p=1189103

 

[Hayder_Master]

ohh, very nice move from india for supporting kids , this is very good work for next generation

 

[pr0n Inspector]

when you don't even have enough resources for normal educations, you know these OLPC and "networked database" are only stupid dreams of richer people.

 

[Castiel]

Yeah it is a scam. Its a flash drive.