India's $10 Laptop Is Not A Laptop?

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According to Engadget, that $10 laptop announced in India is not a laptop at all. If their information is correct, this thing isn’t much of anything and hardly worth the $10 - $30 asking price.

The $10 laptop is not a laptop at all, the display-less and keyboard-less prototype device demonstrated is just a 10 x 5-inch wide slab that stores (and apparently prints) distributed learning materials which can later be retrieved by an impoverished child
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I think they meant "laptop" in the sense that the schools in India don't have desks.
 
The only way it would be possible for India to actually do a "$10" laptop is if the project were heavily subsidized by their government and they dont have the cash laying around for that kind of project. Hell, my old TI-83 from college would have more power than this POC.
 
I guess that answers the question of how they were going to make it so cheap.

And I like how just like the OLPC which was suppose to be $99 at first then kept going up, this $10 "laptop" is now up to $30. Same would happen for the $60 real laptop they mentioned making out of it. I'd guess that too would be about 3 times as high if now more by the time they were done.

My guess is that they were calling it a laptop to get people to give them money to help invest in it. Although lieing ot investors like that is a good way to never get money again.
 
This is a real waste of money. Way to string investors along for this "$10" laptop... reminds me of the "true voice recognition" phone thats being touted around.
 
bholstege said:
^ misunderstood. So its a portable printer?
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Its kind of hard to tell for sure, but I'm not seeing an actual printer build in there. It sounds more like it is just a portable harddrive that can download content on its own more than anything else.

2GB of storage space, wifi, ethernet. That is the known specs.

I might be missing something but if you still need a laptop (or any other type of computer) to connect to it to get the data what is the point of it? Why not just connect the computer/laptop to the internet and be done with it?

Even if it doesn't have a built in printer or have a printer addon you would still need to have a way to select the data to print, which is hard if you don't a screen or input method.
 
Lol. So let me get this straight, India's $10 dollar laptop is neither a laptop, nor $10, nor made in India? Another article says the "laptop," which really could just be a $30 box of saltines for all I know, is named "Sakshat." I don't translate Hindu very well, but it sounds like "sack of something I'd rather not step in" to me.
 
Hmmm, an over-promised Indian IT delivery that is under-scope, over-budget and late? Didn't see that one coming.
 
Steve said:
According to Engadget, that $10 laptop announced in India is not a laptop at all. If their information is correct, this thing isn’t much of anything and hardly worth the $10 - $30 asking price.
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steve, in india $10 probably equals something like $300 US dollars.

I bet it takes them 3 months to make $10.
 
just make them a small fleet of Asus EEE's with like 4Gig SDHC cards as the HDD and scrap the extra crap like microphone and webcam, I bet we could get an EEE down to below 200 if we did that, and it would beat out the OLPC
 
Hulk said:
steve, in india $10 probably equals something like $300 US dollars.

I bet it takes them 3 months to make $10.
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That price is in US dollars. The actaul cost would be Rs 500 in their currency.
 
Hey I have a $1 laptop...

now however it doesn't have a screen, nor keyboard, hell doesn't even require power! It's a snapple bottle where you can take the cap off and learn some informative facts!
 
sfsuphysics said:
Hey I have a $1 laptop...

now however it doesn't have a screen, nor keyboard, hell doesn't even require power! It's a snapple bottle where you can take the cap off and learn some informative facts!
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I'll have 10 pls
 
If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. It doesn't take a genius to realize that it's impossible to build a $10 laptop. You can get a small USB flash drive for $10, or a cheap laptop mouse... but not a whole computer.
 
well, 10$ would get you further than a mouse, your thinking MSRP, I think thiis project is based on manufacture costs while governments and companies eat the shipping an everything else. 10$ could get you probably half if not the whole logic board built, with a craptastic CPU and some memory too.

Whole laptop? Very doubt-able, but more than just a mouse
 
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