02-02-2009, 10:46 PM
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India to follow $2,000 car with $20 laptop
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->India is planning to produce a laptop computer for the knockdown price of about $20 (â¬16, £14), having come up with the Tata Nano, the worldâs cheapest car at about $2,000.
The project, backed by New Delhi, would considerably undercut the so-called â$100 laptopâ, otherwise known as the Childrenâs Machine or XO, that was designed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of the US.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Indiaâs âSakshatâ laptop is intended to boost distance learning to help India fulfil its overwhelming educational needs. It forms part of a broader plan to improve e-learning at more than 18,000 colleges and 400 universities. However, some analysts are sceptical that a $20 laptop would be commercially sustainable and the project has yet to attract a commercial partner.
A prototype will go on show at a National Mission on Education launch in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, tomorrow. Pioneered in India by scientists at the Vellore Institute of Technology, the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and at the state-controlled Semiconductor Complex, the laptop has 2Gb Ram capacity and wireless connectivity. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
India to follow $2,000 car with $20 laptop
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->India is planning to produce a laptop computer for the knockdown price of about $20 (â¬16, £14), having come up with the Tata Nano, the worldâs cheapest car at about $2,000.
The project, backed by New Delhi, would considerably undercut the so-called â$100 laptopâ, otherwise known as the Childrenâs Machine or XO, that was designed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of the US.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Indiaâs âSakshatâ laptop is intended to boost distance learning to help India fulfil its overwhelming educational needs. It forms part of a broader plan to improve e-learning at more than 18,000 colleges and 400 universities. However, some analysts are sceptical that a $20 laptop would be commercially sustainable and the project has yet to attract a commercial partner.
A prototype will go on show at a National Mission on Education launch in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, tomorrow. Pioneered in India by scientists at the Vellore Institute of Technology, the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and at the state-controlled Semiconductor Complex, the laptop has 2Gb Ram capacity and wireless connectivity. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->