[OLPC-SF] India has ordered 250,000 laptops from the OLPC

[rihoward1 at gmail.com]

On Apr 25, 2009, at 7:50 PM, rihoward1 at gmail.com wrote:

> That so called research was for university student computer use at  
> some African universities.  ( Far from the OLPC target market. )   
> Sounds like it had a bias to teaching MS office products.  They did  
> not even try an alternative boot on SD card with Ubuntu and Open  
> Office for example.  I do not have the link to the research at hand  
> at the moment.

Here is the link to the report produced by Computer Aid  http:// 
www.computeraid.org/pdffiles/Report%20on%20Low-Power%20PC%20Research% 
20Project%20April%202009.pdf


>
> On Apr 25, 2009, at 6:17 PM, Grant Bowman wrote:
>
>> A goal of 3 million laptops for India?  Wild.
>>
>> What research are they talking about in the article that ranks the  
>> asus eee higher than the xo?
>>
>> Grant
>>
>> On Apr 25, 2009 5:05 PM, "Sameer Verma" <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:30 PM, rihoward1 at gmail.com  
>> <rihoward1 at gmail.com> wrote: > > http://www.pc...
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>> It is election season in India! They'll promise you anything :-)
>>
>> If this is indeed true, then hats off to Satish and we (volunteers)
>> need to gear up for Indic translations :-)
>>
>> cheers,
>> Sameer
>> --
>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>> Associate Professor of Information Systems
>> San Francisco State University
>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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