Govt's much-awaited $10 laptop turns out be a joke (India)

[OhioChick]

Source: Times of India

5 Feb 2009, 0054 hrs IST, Neelima Rao, TNN

TIRUPATI: The hype surrounding the $10 laptop ``prototype'' with two GB RAM turned out to be a joke when the department of Human Resources Development announced — during its inauguration in the temple town of Tirupati — that it wasn't a laptop at all but a computing device.

While the world eagerly waited for the launch of the $10 laptop — designed by students of Vellore Institute of Technology, scientists in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IIT-Madras, UGC and MHRD — it wasn't a patch on the $100 laptop made by MIT.

The MHRD officials said the price was working out to be $20 but with mass production it was bound to come down to $10 (Rs 500) and thus become affordable for every student in India.

But netizens were disappointed when the ``laptop'' turned out to be nothing more than a computing device along with a hard disk with e-books, e-journals and relevant educative material through the state-art-of-the-art ``Sakshat'' portal.

As the device appeared smaller than the normal laptop with 10-inch length and five-inch width, buzz got around that it was a ``Nano-top'' and not a laptop. But MHRD official brought the curtains down on all the hungama, saying it was just a computing device with 2GB memory.


Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/10_laptop_turns_out_be_a_joke/articleshow/4078115.cms

[BlooInBloo]

1. Anyone falling for such an ad needs a WHOOOOLE lot more schooling.

[OhioChick]

2. Ummmm....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=3719138

[BlooInBloo]

3. That's a lovely thread. And?

[OhioChick]

5. I guess according to "you"

Several here "need a WHOOOOLE lot more schooling."

[BlooInBloo]

6. BWAHAAHAHAHA!!!!! **That's** what your point was???

BWAHAHAAHAHAH!!!!!

Um, a whole lot more than a few.

[ChromeFoundry]

8. Maybe we should start with

a refresher course in proper use of onomatopoeia.

Then we could attempt to tackle punctuation.

Finally, interjection usage.

[Life Long Dem]

4. Oh... that's where I saw it.

Yeah, I knew it was BS.

[geckosfeet]

7. Yeah - yeah. I have a magic bridge here. It goes to happy land. Only $850 billion.

[razors edge]

9. Better yet, you won't ever have to pay for it.

We can't pay off what we already owe, so why stop now?

[OhioChick]

10. ...

:rofl: