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$10 Laptop Downgraded By Reality; Now Fancy Storage Device

Posted by timothy on from the not-that-there's-anything-wrong-with-that dept.

Ian Lamont writes "The news last week that the Indian government was working on a $10 laptop was too good to be true. It turns out that the project is actually a wireless-enabled storage device, not a laptop." Update: 02/04 21:36 GMT by T : Always-illuminating Liliputing has a short article with a picture of the device.

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  1. Re:portable computer by CannonballHead · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not necessarily just western media..

  2. Re:portable computer by Kuukai · · Score: 4, Informative

    Didn't the original reports tout this as a "portable computer"? This is still what it appears to be. It was the western media that labeled it a "laptop" and ran with it.

    No, they didn't. According to TFA (as well as TFA this is retracting), the Times of India reported that it was a laptop and other news sources picked it up from there. I'm a little curious as to how this left the blog-level and made it to NPR, but the government itself was hyping it as their answer to the $100 laptop, which is clearly not the case.

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  3. Re:Wireless storage for $10? by macraig · · Score: 4, Informative

    At a puny capacity of 2GB, you'll have to take three.

  4. Re:Why so expensive? by hldn · · Score: 3, Informative

    voila != voilà

    voila is a conjugated form of the french verb voiler. (in the indicatif passé simple if you were interested)
    voilà is, in english, an interjection and the intended meaning of the gp.

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