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03-02-2009, 11:50 PM
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The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
India's government unveiled the jointly-developed "$20 laptop" today. Dubbed Sakshat, which roughly translates as "before your eyes", the laptop is slated to ship in six months, with specs as follows: 2GB of storage, WiFi, Ethernet and 2 watts of power consumption. There's still no information about the screen size, RAM or processor.
Some folks are also still skeptical as to whether a laptop can really be produced at such a low cost, since most LCDs alone would put it over budget.
The laptop itself won't be subsidized, but the government will shoulder 25 percent of the cost of broadband for colleges, and there will be free e-learning textbooks available to students online.
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03-02-2009, 11:56 PM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
Hot babes.
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03-02-2009, 11:56 PM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
FCUK! I can't believe it!
Its Govt. of India...and just look at the babes carrying that laptop :shocked:
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04-02-2009, 12:06 AM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
^^LMAO at the level of testosterone in this thread.
Anyone know the purpose of those tacky buttons on either side on the display?
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04-02-2009, 12:19 AM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
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Anyone know the purpose of those tacky buttons on either side on the display?
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I noticed those buttons only when you pointed out 
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04-02-2009, 12:20 AM
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Wahahaha~!
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
I want the middle one...;D
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04-02-2009, 12:27 AM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
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I want the middle one...;D
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If you can, take all the 3!
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04-02-2009, 12:29 AM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
I wonder if it can open a "Crysis" wallpaper bitmap also
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04-02-2009, 12:58 AM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
Is it possible to run linux or win ME , office 97?
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04-02-2009, 01:05 AM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
^prolly, yes!
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04-02-2009, 01:14 AM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
I will take the model in black color ...
Seriously, this thing is too underpowered & small for any real work. If Indian government does wants to make something useful for everyday work then better sign a deal with Qualmcom for there Snapdragon platform for nVidia for there Tegra SoC. Yes, it might sound insane for me to advocate ARM but here is the thing, Snapdragon & Tegra got some serious potential when it comes to small such devices. For a device such small & light work, they should rather prefer to ARM architecture with a custom built Linux for this particular thing, with a touchscreen Tablet PC like device (this form factor has some really good advantages) to which bluetooth keyboard & mouse can be added or a Simple USB 2.0 port with an addition hub & 10" screen size...
U know what...this just gave me an Idea of how it should be. Let me try making a device like that in 3ds Max.
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04-02-2009, 01:25 AM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
oh great news....
I will buy 2-3 these laptops for my family 
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04-02-2009, 06:06 AM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
अब सरकार laptops से लोगों का खून चूसेगी यार,यह नया तरीका है
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04-02-2009, 06:48 AM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
Look at the Photo, looks like the OS is XP or Vista 
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04-02-2009, 08:24 AM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
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I want the middle one...;D
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Me to want the middle one  ....but competition badjaarahe hai.....
so, I'll take left one....
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04-02-2009, 10:53 AM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
I'm guessing the laptop uses removable SD cards for data storage with the main OS running on a ROM, going by the 2W of power consumption.
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Seriously, this thing is too underpowered & small for any real work.
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How do we know what's powering that thing? For all we know, it could be running a Core i7 EE subsidized by Intel.
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04-02-2009, 11:15 AM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
Core i7 needs more electricity to run
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04-02-2009, 11:52 AM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
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Thanks for the correct link.
This is a dampner.
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04-02-2009, 12:09 PM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
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FCUK! I can't believe it!
Its Govt. of India...and just look at the babes carrying that laptop :shocked:
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Yeah, those babes and UPA govt. don't quite match.
I wud be amazed the lappys do half as good as one of them mite do in maths.
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04-02-2009, 05:57 PM
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This whole fiasco was compounded by a few factors: deliberate misinformation by people close to the project, the complete and utter incompetence of the Indian press (we still don't even have a solid idea what this thing is) and the eagerness of Western news outlets to believe that such a product, which would have been dismissed as totally impossible if announced here, was inexplicably plausible because it was coming from the mysterious foreign land of India. Whatever the case, there is no $10 laptop, and there probably never will be—at least not from these guys.
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So true.
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04-02-2009, 06:15 PM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
Completely agree.
As I said before, India can never be another China when it comes to manufacturing things cheaply. Atleast they created a 150$ laptop on ARM architecture and a 200$ laptop on MIPS architecture.
At its best, the Indian Govt. can make a 10$ mobile phone.
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04-02-2009, 06:18 PM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
I think it will look and work the Digital diaries of olden days!
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04-02-2009, 07:49 PM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
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Correct. I am amazed no one caught it. The original Sakshat lappy wasn't even released. Just another announcement was made. Every tech blog is now criticising it. And it's $30 now.
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04-02-2009, 08:11 PM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
Wow this is just truly awesome, if this is a success then one day soon India will never be called as illiterate.
India Rockzzz!!
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04-02-2009, 08:13 PM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
he he now UPA vote bank strategy for Grabing n00b techies
Nice move my UPA!!...Nice babes 2
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04-02-2009, 08:24 PM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
I am interested in this device .. will buy immediately irrespective of the OS, RAM etc etc.. for me even a 500 MHz processor will do
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04-02-2009, 09:12 PM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
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I am amazed no one caught it.
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That's becasue no one was bothered about the laptop in the pic, but was looking at the beautiful people carrying the laptop.
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
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That's because no one was bothered about the laptop in the pic, but was looking at the beautiful people carrying the laptop. |
he he, U know us very well
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04-02-2009, 11:01 PM
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Re: The $10/Rs. 500 Sakshaat laptop is here
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I want the middle one...;D
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I will take the model in black color ...
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Me to want the middle one ....but competition badjaarahe hai.....
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LOLZ.....
I doubt if they know what they are holding in their hands.
These are laptops ? I think this things are minitops
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Nice work mate....Pointing out the truth
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