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Re: [News] India's Hopes/Plans for $10 Laptops; Microsoft Vision of UMPC Dies

  • Subject: Re: [News] India's Hopes/Plans for $10 Laptops; Microsoft Vision of UMPC Dies
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 14:49:40 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <3000011.T21sfjHXto@schestowitz.com>
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> HRD hopes to make $10 laptops a reality
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | So far, the cost of one laptop, after factoring in labour charges,
> | is coming to $47 but the ministry feels the price will come
> | down dramatically considering the fact that the demand would
> | be for one million laptops.
> `----
> 
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/TOIonline/India/HRD_hopes_to_make_10_laptops_a_reality/articleshow/1999849.cms
> 
> India uses Linux in its low-cost PCs, even those which are only planned at
> this stage.

Good grief!!! *Five quid*!!!

Beat that Intel!

> The UMPC dies. And no one notices.

UMPCa LUMPCa doom-pa-dee ... gone.

Smartphones and sub-notebooks work as a concept, these tablet thingies
just don't. People want keyboards ... simple.

> Intel has chosen Linux for its MID, essentially taking a risky that would
> anger Microsoft.

There's a lot of that going round. Just ask Dell.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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| those people are missing the point.  Weâre not fighting.  At least
| the useful people arenât fighting.  No good code ever comes out of
| people who do things because they are afraid, or because they hate.
|
| - Linus Torvalds. http://tinyurl.com/eumwb (Groklaw)
`----

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