[OLPC India] More "evidence" for the £7 or $20 laptop

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

It's a glorified storage device, nothing more than that.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/04/indias-10-laptop-is-not-a-laptop/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Hyderabad/10-laptop_proves_to_be_a_damp_squib/articleshow/4072417.cms

-sdg-


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Ron Penny <ronpenny at kastanet.org> wrote:
> For those skeptics among us here's what FORBES has reported today:
>
> http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/04/laptop-cheapest-india-markets-faces-0202_technology.html?partner=alerts
>
>
> All the major UK newspapers also reported VERY POSITIVELY one the same
> "challenging as well as exciting" news.
>
> I still wonder what the impact will be on people like me who want to
> provide the poorest with the education they need, providing the
> technology now available in this fast moving 21st century.
>
> The XO's pricing has to change, DOWNWARDS, rapidly, or be left behind
> ...  surely. Or am I wrong?
>
> Ron Penny
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