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Re: [News] India's Hopes/Plans for $10 Laptops; Microsoft Vision of UMPC Dies

  • Subject: Re: [News] India's Hopes/Plans for $10 Laptops; Microsoft Vision of UMPC Dies
  • From: John Bailo <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 11:31:53 -0700
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Guy Fawkes wrote:

This is crap, there's no way you can build a $10 laptop today or even a $50 one. The numbers simply do not add up. This is another Indian pie-in-the-sky story just like that low-cost Indian computer of about 5 years ago, it died without ever seeing the light.

India (or may Idiotna) seems to be playing a crazy game these days. Just recently Tata motors announced a "$2500 car". I swept under the rugs trying to find out:


1. A picture
2. How they could manufacture it
3. Specifications

And found zilch.

Now the $10 PC.   What next, the $200 spaceship?

What are my desis in Bangalore and Pondicherry doing?



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