Comments on: India’s $10 computer ain’t a laptop

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By: PDFoxy

PDFoxy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:09:21 +0000

Why india launch a product like that?

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:13:00 +0000

Only India would try to make something worthless… how about that cheap car??

By: Some interesting facts about India’s $10 laptop « Tech Lahore

Some interesting facts about India’s $10 laptop « Tech Lahore — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:50:37 +0000

[...] sums it up: “You know that $10 Sakshat laptop that Indian officials unveiled yesterday? Yeah, it’s not [...]

By: Devin Marcus

Devin Marcus — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:53:43 +0000

Yet another BS from India. India people are nothing but scammer when it comes to advancement in technology. The only good thing of india is that their workforce are cheap

By: Brad Linder

Brad Linder — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:43:09 +0000

Sorry, mental typo there. I meant to say display.

By: jit

jit — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:25:14 +0000

only country in this world capable of building a low cost computer is CHINA but not INDIA. china has cheap labour. this is common sense. thanks

By: Netbook Insider Forums

Netbook Insider Forums — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:01:40 +0000

Is that a picture of it underwater!? LOL

By: leop

leop — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:01:18 +0000

When you say that there's “no keyboard or CPU”, bu then later say that “I'm guess there's some sort of processor in there.”, what is your definition of CPU? CPU = Central Processing Unit, no?

By: GfromMN

GfromMN — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:13:38 +0000

My textbooks cost me $120-$150 a piece. If textbooks in India cost around $30, then I just got a major dose of culture shock.

By: sanskrit-challeged

sanskrit-challeged — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:07:58 +0000

i hope they change that name. it's way too easy for me to say “Sack-shit” instead.

By: johnny abacus

johnny abacus — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:28:36 +0000

“Why such old chips?”

There are System-on-a-Chips with older processors which have been staples in the embedded world for quite some time. When the cost of everything is added up, these can provide significant savings – essentially the system is 1 chip w/ the minimum board size and ancillary electronic parts (mostly port adapters, resisters and capacitors).

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:58:40 +0000

Why such old chips? A brand new p4 2.8ghz chip costs a paltry 19$ today (much to my chagrin over the past few days as I was parting out my old desktop). I'm sure that earlier pentiums go even cheaper. The big issue would be power consumption and cooling I believe.

By: Me

Me — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:05:21 +0000

The interesting thing is, a $10-$30 computer (with keyboard) is probably possible to do. Not so sure about a $10-$30 laptop, unless you go with a supercheap b/w, low res display, but even then it'd probably be in the $50-$100 range.

As for the cheapo computer, create an 8-bit 'system-on-a-chip', such as what they use for those retro arcade joysticks. They have NES, Genesis, and even C-64 models now. So make a C-64/Spectrum/Apple II/etc chip, or if ambitious, Amiga (16 bit), chip in the $5 or so range, include a keyboard, add some flash memory (not much needed), and there you go.

It wouldn't be the same as a netbook as we know it, but for the third world, young children, or retro people, it could have a market.