$10 laptop is not a laptop

[K9 Kai Niggemann]

It seems it's more like a modem with a CPU:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/04/indias-10-laptop-is-not-a-laptop?icid=sphere_blogsmith_inpage_engadget

"You know what was missing from the so-call "unveiling" of India's $10  
laptop yesterday? Photos. Now we think we know why. The $10 laptop is  
not a laptop at all, the display-less and keyboard-less prototype  
device demonstrated is just a 10 x 5-inch wide slab that stores (and  
apparently prints) distributed learning materials which can later be  
retrieved by an impoverished child... using a laptop and paper he  
can't afford to purchase..."

so that (unfortunately) explains it all..

Kai

On 3. Feb 09, at 14:43 , K9 Kai Niggemann wrote:

>
> On 3. Feb 09, at 12:48 , Don't t(h)read on my tentacles, Earthling!
> wrote:
>
>> Anyone with a brain who would have read his papers in Wired he did  
>> for
>> years would.
>
> why? because he is an optimist and a visionary? not someone who is
> afraid to think up new things?
>
> I think Negroponte is and was great.
>
> Kai
>
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