Cheap Indian laptop

**SantaClaus** · 3 February 2009, 22:48

Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post

How much? Go on guess.

£700? No, lower
£70? Nope, lower
£7? Yep, great guess

Much cheapness, plenty quickness

I would pay an extra 50p to get the deluxe version.

Thats all very well, but can it do my work plenty quickly and for a bowl of rice a day?

**Doggy Styles** · 3 February 2009, 22:58

Does it come with OpenOffice?

**Board Game Geek** · 4 February 2009, 08:39

Does it come with OpenOffice?

Notepad.

**d000hg** · 4 February 2009, 08:49

Did the $100 laptop ever get to mass production?

**DimPrawn** · 4 February 2009, 10:09

Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post

How much? Go on guess.

£700? No, lower
£70? Nope, lower
£7? Yep, great guess

Much cheapness, plenty quickness

I would pay an extra 50p to get the deluxe version.

£7 for the laptop + £147 for Vista Ultimate edition.

**ratewhore** · 4 February 2009, 10:30

Out of interest, what are all these indians who live in the slums going to plug their £7 laptop into?

This reminds me of Tony Bliar's mission to equip all africans with internet access. Never mind food and water, give 'em the internet...

**voodooflux** · 4 February 2009, 10:39

Looks like the £7 price may have been a misquote, and the actual price will be closer to £70. Still not bad though! Linky.

Early reports of the cheap laptop suggested that it would cost only 500 rupees (£7). However, this could be a mistranslation, because transcripts of the speech, in which it was unveiled, mentioned it costing $10 (£7) but this was later corrected to $100 (£70).

**expat** · 4 February 2009, 10:39

Originally posted by The Times dept of random & weird statistics

Down memory lane

1981 The first IBM PC cost $1,565 (then £775) and had the memory for a few text files. Source: Times archives

Originally posted by zeitghost

The 1959 IC was probably an AND gate. Which to be fair, do cost rather less than $10 now...

Dunno what the PC sold for here, but the first XT I saw cost about £3k...

I saw an PC in a New York office in the early 80s, and was told that it cost $5,500. Of course, it did have a Graphics Adapter (green only).

It was owned by a contractor.

**bogeyman** · 4 February 2009, 10:50

Originally posted by zeitghost

The 1959 IC was probably an AND gate. Which to be fair, do cost rather less than $10 now...

Dunno what the PC sold for here, but the first XT I saw cost about £3k...

IIRC the first integrated circuit was an op-amp made invented at Siemens in 1946 by a bod called Jacobi. Before the invention of the transistor (correction - no it wasn't)!

Cheap Indian laptop