The $10 laptop I was talking about, which went nowhere. If you read the specs, they were claiming the same thing that they're claiming now.
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Well, it’s official -- sort of. India’s ultra low-cost laptop was formally announced Tuesday, although product details were sketchy at best. According to an InformationWeek report, the “Sakshat” laptop will have 2GB of memory, Wi-Fi, wired Ethernet, and will use a miserly 2 watts of power. The device will initially cost $20, but is slated to drop to $10 within six months as production ramps up.
The rest of the laptop remains a mystery, however. Key tech specs such screen size, processor, storage, and battery life weren’t released, and we’ve yet to see an official photo of the vaporous hardware. It’s a fair guess to say that the Sakshat, if it’s for real, will use a barebones version of Linux open source software as its operating system.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/15887..._bad_joke.html
If they're going to subsidize this thing to make it available to students and such, fine, but I think its stupid idea given what they've done in the past, or tried in the past, which failed, and instead they should focus on the 'one laptop per child' initiative, which according to the article I mentioned has gotten the cost down to $188/laptop, and from what I've read has done a fairly good job getting laptops into the hands of people who can't afford it, or often times live in poverty, etc, etc.