While we thought that we’d see some incredible unveiling of the India’s $US10 but really $US20 but really $US10 laptop, their public announcement today was a complete waste of time and hype.
We know nothing new, save for the name. It’s called the Sakshat. It will cost $US20 at launch but is promised to drop to $US10 six months later. And it features 2GB of RAM, Wi-Fi and ethernet while consuming just 2W of power…which we knew.
Screen size? Processor? Battery life? Software? Launch date? Pictures? Fuzzy pictures? Nah, that stuff is for real products. Right now, this is vapourware. No, it’s not even that. It’s some second grader sitting in the back of the bus, convincing his classmates that, really, his dad used to play basketball with Michael Jordan and that, seriously, he’s totally hooking up with a seventh grader over at Parkland Middle School. [InformationWeek]
Sakshat
Friday, February 6, 2009 at 2:54 PMThat picture at in dot com is NOT the $0 Indian laptop. That picture is something totally different costing like $300 made by a company called Milead or something.
Anyways, why would you have a bunch of model bimbos showing off laptops for children’s education.
In fact, there are no pictures of the Indian $0 laptop. I’m guessing it may be a pure bunch of hoax, vapourware that about 500 lazy blog writers just copied from one another without even stopping up to think for one second if this story about a $10 Indian laptop was joke.