16 Februari 2009

The $20 Laptop that Didn’t Cost $20 and Wasn’t a Laptop

The Financial Times published a report by James Lamont on 1 February claiming the country was planning to produce a laptop computer for the knockdown price of US$20, having come up with the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, at about $2,000. University World News listed the story in its Round-Up section last week. Unfortunately for our readers – and a world longing for such a device – the story was wrong: there is no such laptop.
Unfortunately for our readers - and a world longing for such a device - the story was wrong: there is no such laptop.In his report, Lamont said the project, backed by New Delhi, would considerably undercut the so-called "$100 laptop", otherwise known as the Children's Machine or XO, designed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US.
Full report on the University World News site
Source: University World News, Issue No: 0063 15 February 2009

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