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India Looks To Produce World's First $10 Laptop

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thunderbird.117 Original post #1
May 5, 2007 at 1:06 AM
Read more here := *www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199203891&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News


What do you guys think?. I feel this is another vapour projects.
Tech.Masti
May 5, 2007 at 3:33 AM
ye abhi bahut door ki baat hai, they can make minimum priced lappy of $47 ...
eddie
eddie #3
May 5, 2007 at 3:43 AM
India's Ministry of Human Resource Development is spearheading the project
^ That is Arjun Singh talking out of you-know-where. Do you still need any proof of what this thing is? He has already got a whole education center named after him in JNU...a new road after his name...he will keep saying and doing such bullcr@p things. Just don't pay any heed to it.
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thunderbird.117 #4
May 5, 2007 at 3:46 AM
eddie said:
^ That is Arjun Singh talking out of you-know-where. Do you still need any proof of what this thing is? He has already got a whole education center named after him in JNU...a new road after his name...he will keep saying and doing such bullcr@p things. Just don't pay any heed to it.

Yea this is already a international news. I wonder if anyone is laughing at this one.
eddie
eddie #5
May 5, 2007 at 3:51 AM
Yeah...In a few hours the whole world will be pointing and laughing at us...:mad:
kirangp
kirangp #7
May 5, 2007 at 10:45 AM
The config for this----- Pentium 1 100Mhz,16 Mb Ram,1.44 Mb Floppy Drive,32 Mb Hard disk,Original Version of Microsoft DOS and he will sell it going from house to house after Congress loses in the next elections
kalpik
kalpik #8
May 5, 2007 at 11:22 AM
Digg link: *digg.com/tech_news/India_working_on_10_laptops
Funny comments there.. Dunno why but indians love making a fool out of themselves in front of the whole world.. (directed towards arjun singh)
kumarmohit
May 5, 2007 at 12:11 PM
Simputer stupidity, again!
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amol48 #10
May 5, 2007 at 6:43 PM
my Ipod carry case itself is costlier than that !!! lol !
ssdivisiongermany1933
May 5, 2007 at 7:08 PM
Lappy for $ 10 , I hope it will have intel 8080 proccy
Drizzling Blur
May 5, 2007 at 10:37 PM
..:: Free Radical ::.. said:
booooooo A$$jun Singh

Exactly my thoughts. So what are the specifications of this laptop ?

A touch screen without a screen and free internet access as well ?
chesss
chesss #13
May 5, 2007 at 11:52 PM
For those laughing here, tell me what do you think is the aim of indian lappy?
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thunderbird.117 #14
May 6, 2007 at 1:25 AM
I wonder why is laptop is the first piority?. India is suffering from water and power crisis. What is the point of having a laptop?. This government has become a laughing stock in front of developed nation. I also wonder if this something got to with election.
Tech.Masti
May 6, 2007 at 2:13 AM
chesss said:
For those laughing here, tell me what do you think is the aim of one-laptop per child in India?
their mission is $100 lappy, not $10 :p , and see their website that their laptop may lacks HDD, so what will be the configuration of indian laptop?? :evil:
cynosure
cynosure #16
May 6, 2007 at 10:51 PM
This is the same India which talked about giving free 8MBPS broadband till 2009.
These things are ridiculus, they cant do the impossible (Adidas says impossible is nothing, let them have a look at these news) :(
deepak.krishnan
May 6, 2007 at 11:00 PM
are yaar, what will the lappy contain? scrap from the last decade???
joey_182
joey_182 #18
May 6, 2007 at 11:09 PM
Leaking Configuration Of 10$ laptop
3.0 Ghz Intel Pentium 4
40 GB HDD
256RAM

Note:At that time 1$=2500rs

;))..

tell arjun that laptop is not same as suitcase..jispe digital lock lagta hai...
cynosure
cynosure #19
May 7, 2007 at 10:39 PM
I read all the time that the lightest linux uses 8MB ram and Pentium1 (I dont know lower model number). I think Arjun Singh will make the kids use this kinda thing.
QwertyManiac
May 7, 2007 at 10:40 PM
My fx990ES cost me 800 bucks! Hell!
Zeeshan Quireshi
May 7, 2007 at 10:55 PM
well ithink arjun singh is talkin bout lappy with not OS installed on hdd but on a ROM ship like a firmware with just a cui n 1mhz proccy with 8kb of ram , i think he's gone back to the Unix era :D :D :D

even my scientific calculator would beat that(cost rs 300)
~Phenom~
~Phenom~ #24
May 8, 2007 at 3:16 AM
may be it will be the most subsidised product ever....

with india , u never know...
cynosure
cynosure #26
May 9, 2007 at 8:47 AM
^^I dont think any govt. will give a subsidy of 90%:D
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laptops4u #27
May 9, 2007 at 11:33 AM
I think we should start Manufacturing Laptops, like China doing , We must beet china , other wise they will crush us like any thing ...
eagle_y2j
eagle_y2j #28
May 9, 2007 at 1:30 PM
this 10$ lappy will be there for reservation students only
pritish_kul2
May 9, 2007 at 2:54 PM
Aane do, i'll take a million of them
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Saharika #31
May 9, 2007 at 4:44 PM
these are time pass baat..
may be come to light....
any way if i could find laptop for even 100 dollars i will buy ten..not only one..but even that UN laptop is being like time pass baat....

so bothering in these kind of news is another time pass