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CK_John Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-02-09 12:16 PM
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India to announce a laptop for about $35 tomorrow. Will this wreck IT or
just break MS's business model.
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canetoad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-02-09 01:04 PM
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1. I guess we will know more when the announcement is made
However I doubt that a $35 computer will appease the glazed-eye, auto-update, must-have-anything-new mob.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:58 PM
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2. $35? 9" screen, 400MB hard drive, 512MB RAM? Sounds as useful as a neutered hamster.
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 01:07 PM
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3. $20
India Unveils $20 Laptop

Makers of the Sakshat laptop aim to make it commercially available in six months -- and promise to drop the price to $10.

The Sakshat is thought to use a simple version of Linux open source software as an operating system. Skeptics in India who question whether the laptop can actually be produced and sold for such a low price have noted that the Sakshat announcement precedes important elections in India.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=213000685&subSection=News
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RoyGBiv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 09:13 AM
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5. More ...
This looks like it is turning out to be a hardware version of vaporware.

At least there is a device, but not a $10 laptop exactly.

India's much-hyped plan to build a $10 laptop has been exposed as a massive exaggeration.

...

Now it turns out that the project actually centers around a 2GB hard drive with wireless capabilities.

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/02/04/indias-10-laptop-too-good-be-true
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IDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-04-09 12:04 PM
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4. The graphics capabilities look somewhat limited
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