India to announce a laptop for about $35 tomorrow. Will this wreck IT or

[CK_John]

just break MS's business model.

[canetoad]

1. I guess we will know more when the announcement is made

However I doubt that a $35 computer will appease the glazed-eye, auto-update, must-have-anything-new mob.

[Deja Q]

2. $35? 9" screen, 400MB hard drive, 512MB RAM? Sounds as useful as a neutered hamster.

[Why Syzygy]

3. $20

India Unveils $20 Laptop

Makers of the Sakshat laptop aim to make it commercially available in six months -- and promise to drop the price to $10.

The Sakshat is thought to use a simple version of Linux open source software as an operating system. Skeptics in India who question whether the laptop can actually be produced and sold for such a low price have noted that the Sakshat announcement precedes important elections in India.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=213000685&subSection=News

[RoyGBiv]

5. More ...

This looks like it is turning out to be a hardware version of vaporware.

At least there is a device, but not a $10 laptop exactly.

India's much-hyped plan to build a $10 laptop has been exposed as a massive exaggeration.

...

Now it turns out that the project actually centers around a 2GB hard drive with wireless capabilities.

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/02/04/indias-10-laptop-too-good-be-true

[IDemo]

4. The graphics capabilities look somewhat limited