India plans 10-dollar laptop

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India plans 10-dollar laptop

The Indian government wants an ultra-cheap laptop on the market. The device, for just ten U.S. dollars is to help students from poorer regions of the country to recruit. When presenting the project in South India Tirupati, however, it was only once when announcements.

Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the OLPC initiative, before a picture of the 100-dollar laptops.India wants the price of a cheap computer with its own model offer. 

. Actually he had on today's Tuesday of the public to be presented. But the 10-dollar laptop, with the Indian Ministry of Education, the educational opportunities of children from poorer regions to improve, remains a phantom. During the presentation Tirupati in southern India has been eagerly awaited prototype in any case not presented.

Instead, Education Minister repeated RP Agrawal only some technical details that are already in advance of the event had become known: Wi-Fi capable, and he should have two gigabytes of RAM available. That's it then, but also in technical information - information about how a laptop at such low prices can be established, were not made.

In six months, the "Phantom" available - 940 million U.S. dollars (around 740 million euros) wants the Indian government to allow the project cost. The laptop will mainly be used in those regions are used, where computer use because of poor power supply and lack of Internet connections has hardly possible.

The Education Ministry hopes that it, more children from poorer sections of the population for higher education to be able to recruit. In advance of the presentation was known that the Indian government with several publishing houses will cooperate to teaching materials in digital form to the computer can be loaded.

The Indian low-cost laptop would be a much cheaper alternative to the computers of the "One Laptop per Child" project (OLPC). The initiative, by Nicholas Negroponte, a professor at the elite U.S. university MIT, wants specifically for use in less developed regions built laptops for the price $ 100 on the market. The OLPC computers will include a hand crank for power generation equipment.

According to the newspaper "Times of India Government of India has recently against the purchase of OLPC computers pronounced. As a reason for this, among other hidden costs of the project, which the price of such laptops at $ 200 would drive.