Subscribe by EmailIntroducing the $10 Laptop
July 29, 2008 by JR Raphael | 5 comments
Would you like a laptop with that? India’s getting ready to debut a notebook computer at near-McDonald’s-level prices.
The laptop, now under development in Bangalore, will sell for $10 US currency. It’ll be marketed toward “higher education applications” — college students, we assume. Government officials revealed the plans for the product at a conference this week but did not elaborate on what kind of features the computer might have (let’s hope it’s not running on a 486 chipset).
India is also working on offering free broadband access for everyone, limited to only usage related to “educational purposes.” Hey, learning about the birds and the bees is part of a complete education, right?
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Check this .. Indian govt changed it from $10 to $100
http://www.pcworld.com/article/149131/2008/07/.html?tk=rss_news
UPDATE: It’s actually $100 and not $10.
Not even the most heavy rupee pinching hardware could bring the price down to $10 levels, IMHO.
The “lost in translation” factor of this is absolutely hilarious to me. And we wonder why it’s so hard to communicate with phone tech support reps…
Interesting I wonder how they going to pull this off.
theres actually 2 similar laptops by 2 different companies. there’s a $10 one and a $100 one.