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Nicholas Negroponte’s “One Laptop Per Child†project, which aims at providing laptops to school children in developing countries had recently escalated its price from 100$ to 175$. India rejected the deal saying that the laptop would be too pricy to be consumed by rural India, but it seems Indian Human Resources Development Ministry have a plan of their own. Indian HRD Ministry now aims to produce laptops for as cheap as 10$
Believe it or not, but the government has already come up with two prototypes, One from an engineering student at the Vellore Institute of Technology and another from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. Currently, the production costs including the labor comes upto 47$, but the Indian government is ambitious about the venture and believes that the price will come down to 10$ (mere 410 Indian Rupees).
No specific details have been leaked, but most likely, it will be made on a single board and uses old recycled components. Whether this project will turn into a reality or die as a fiction, I leave that to you, but Indian Government seems to be very ambitious about this. Recently, there were talks about providing free broadband to everyone in India.
Source: News.com
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wrote, on May 5th, 2007
I can smell a big ghotala(hindi word) out of this $10 laptop
the corrupt ministers always keeps thinking of new ways of earning money …
wrote, on May 5th, 2007
Instead of 10 usd they should release this laptops for free.
wrote, on May 5th, 2007
How is it possible to make a laptop for $10, I am not sure if its ever going to be realized and is just a publicity stunt to get the world noticing
wrote, on May 5th, 2007
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wrote, on May 6th, 2007
At this stage, I’m doubtful if that’s possible. Though, it would be interesting to see the specifications and configuration of the laptop.
wrote, on May 6th, 2007
This is really Funny .. hahaha. :))
wrote, on May 6th, 2007
Hmm…$10 laptop? Its more far-fetched than a palm-sized super computer.
But if they are using recycled parts, it would be useless from the word go!
wrote, on May 7th, 2007
This is interesting. Hope this project will succeed somehow. Thanks for brining it up to the forum.