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500 rupee laptop with 2gb ram :S
31 Jan 09 02:33 PM #1
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Rs 500 laptop display on Feb 3-India-The Times of India
A $10 laptop (Rs 500) prototype, with 2 GB RAM capacity, would be on display in Tirupati on February 3 when the National Mission on
Education through Information and Communication Techology is launched.
The $10 laptop project, first reported in TOI three years ago, has come as an answer to the $100 laptop of MIT's Nicholas Negroponte that he was trying to hardsell to India. The $10 laptop has come out of the drawing board stage due to work put in by students of Vellore Institute of Technology, scientists in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IIT-Madras and involvement of PSUs like Semiconductor Complex. “At this stage, the price is working out to be $20 but with mass production it is bound to come down,” R P Agarwal, secretary, higher education said.
Forgot to add: if this is real, i'll buy two and break one of them apart for spares, and the other one as a download machine
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Re: 500 rupee laptop with 2gb ram :S
31 Jan 09 02:39 PM #2
is Offline Umm.. custom what? Join Date: May 2005Location: Goa, IndiaAge: 20Posts: 7,438
BUT will it blend!?
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31 Jan 09 02:41 PM #3 is Offline Anime Member Join Date: Sep 2005Location: forsaken landPosts: 2,121 ^^ not if it has an aluminum body
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31 Jan 09 03:03 PM #4
is Offline Resisting Change !! Join Date: Aug 2005Location: MumbaiAge: 23Posts: 1,131 Yea even i was surprised to read it.. I guess, no part of PC can be purchased for 500 bucks.. I wonder how they will assemble one..
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31 Jan 09 03:10 PM #5is Offline Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2007Posts: 44 I think its 2gb of storage space not ram.
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31 Jan 09 03:23 PM #6
is Offline Overloaded Member Join Date: Jun 2006Location: Navi MumbaiPosts: 826 how the hell is it possible ??? Are they going to use some non standard processors and stuff ? No intel chip alone is at that price .
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31 Jan 09 05:23 PM #7is Offline Steroids Member Join Date: Jun 2008Location: CochinAge: 21Posts: 421 Maybe they will use some ARM chip or something. It will probably have just enough RAM to run linux. 2GB of flash memory is cheap these days ( 200-300 ) and will be even cheaper when bought in bulk and 2GB is enough for many linux distributions.
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Re: 500 rupee laptop with 2gb ram :S
31 Jan 09 05:46 PM #8
is Offline Overloaded Member Join Date: Aug 2008Posts: 546 The processor is going to be really weak, prolly something that would normally be designed for phones/GPS. I doubt for the kind of applications that such a processor could handle, you really would need anymore than 256MB RAM.
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31 Jan 09 05:49 PM #10
is Offline =Where's teh moolah= Join Date: Jan 2006Location: Chennai / BangalorePosts: 945 Sorry if I do sound .. the OLPC is a great initiative targeted at the poor children, not for a tech freak who intends to break it down Originally Posted by 6pack Forgot to add: if this is real, i'll buy two and break one of them apart for spares, and the other one as a download machine
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31 Jan 09 08:21 PM #11
is Offline bah..big deal.. Join Date: Jul 2007Age: 22Posts: 2,914 Take out the ram and sell it, even then you'l be in profit
Either way, great if they can make it even in 1000, wil make awesome download rig with some obsolete linux version.
But then again its for young kids, much rather gift it to one of them -
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31 Jan 09 08:30 PM #12
is Offline Nuclear Member Join Date: May 2005Location: mumbai,country::Reservation landPosts: 3,520 Its just 2 much expectation.....
U still get criciboy for 200....if u add 200 more and make it a color one its big achievement...than think abt comp -
Re: 500 rupee laptop with 2gb ram :S
31 Jan 09 09:35 PM #13is Offline Explosive Member Join Date: Jul 2007Posts: 2,259 well i doubt they can achieve it for Rs500 or even 1000 since batteries, screen, processor, ram cost a significant amount .i still think that once people hear and see the spec it want even come close to OLPC let alone a laptop,mostly it will have a monocrome matrix display something like below
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Re: 500 rupee laptop with 2gb ram :S
1 Feb 09 02:37 AM #14
is Offline One Love One UNITED Join Date: Jan 2008Location: NoidaPosts: 922 Only thing that i want it to have is an torrent client , When is this thing suppose to be out ?
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Re: 500 rupee laptop with 2gb ram :S
1 Feb 09 02:45 AM #15
is Offline Steroids Member Join Date: Sep 2007Location: MumbaiAge: 19Posts: 403 Even if it costs a 1000 bucks its still btr than the $100 lappy...
i think all it would manage to do is open a word processing software,calculator n if kids are lucky.. paint...
fr the sake of the large no. of poor kids to whom this might bring a smile i hope this thing works out...
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