You know that $10 Sakshat laptop that Indian officials unveiled yesterday? Yeah, it’s not a laptop. I’ve been reading conflicting information about this device for the past few months. Sometimes it’s supposed to cost $10, sometimes $100. And sometimes it’s called a laptop while other times it had been referred to as a portable computer, which isn’t necessarily the same…

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Indian officials formally unveiled their plans to create a $10 laptop today. And by unveiled, I mean they gave the project a name and confirmed everything that was already revealed last week but failed to produce a prototype or even a picture of a mockup stored in someone’s closet. The laptop will reportedly cost closer to $20 at launch, but…

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Indian officials plan to show a prototype of a new portable computer next week that is in some ways the country’s answer to the OLPC “$100 laptop”  The idea was to create a computer for students in the developing nation that could be sold for far below the cost of the XO Laptop, which actually costs closer to $200. How…

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Sure, research analysts at Gartner may say the mythical $100 laptop is at least 3 years away. But apparently the folks at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore never got the memo. Because IDG News reports that they’re developing a laptop that will be sold for just $100, (not $10 as earlier reports suggested) Now let’s be clear, there…

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