Get Your $10 Laptops!

$10 for the laptop and $200 for the Windows license!

I would imagine they will be installing some kind of Linux operating system.

It would be great if they could pull it off.

I honestly can't see it working though.

Surely labour and parts would add up to more than $10?

It may mean more marketers, but also more customers.

Mant the net could get busy....

I can see the next couple headlines:

"India supplies the world with laptops made by children in sweat shops"

"Glut of $10 laptops pile up in landfills"

"$10 laptops made of balsa wood burst into flames upon over use"

Are they going to grow these things in trees?

It probably costs less then 2 bucks for the parts.

Silicon and metal are not expensive. The prices only go up purely for profits sake and perceived value.

Its supply and demand. When supply overwhelms demand, the price can plummet to almost nothing and still profit.

They aren't building these things out of diamonds and platinum, you know.

Duh.

Also, india & indonesia are some of the most resource rich countries on the planet.

They're literally tripping over materials to build things with, and they are swarmed with people who will work for next to nothing.

Think of all of the trial crap that comes on low-end PC's. They'll make money from the software companies.

Jesus, if they start selling laptops at $10... WOW!

You know people are going to be buying them, then selling them to people who "don't know" for like $40-$100. LOL. It WILL happen, I'd put my life on it.

For many years I've thought that if Microsoft was truly intelligent, they'd manufacture pcs and laptops and just give them away. The money would be in the increased number of average Joe's who couldn't otherwise afford a pc or laptop buying MS software...

Same with cell phone companies. Give the phones away, as long as you sign up for a two-year agreement with AT&T, for example.

What if oil companies literally gave away cheap cars, long as you signed up for a two year agreement to only buy gas from their stations? (Don't know how they'd be able to enforce that, but you get the idea.)

In a way it's good if they do that. They would have a lot more customers using their products. (And a lot more people would understand what we are talking about when speaking of terabytes, uploading, etc.)

But the flip side is if they actually did that, imagine the traffic volume. Servers would be stressed to the max. It'd become a lot harder to find a decent domain name still available. And with even more billions of people being online, the governments would really push to tax the crap out of anything sold over the internet. Not good for any of us.

I'm sure MS would love to put an end to Linux. And I'm sure MS would figure out a way to make none of their programs work in these $10 laptops, simply because they are not that smart. Or they have contracts with the computer companies (Dell, Gateway, etc.) to work with them to keep screwing the public with over-priced hardware.

Either way, I don't think anyone will see a new laptop for less than $100 anytime soon. Not if MS and the computer manufacturers have anything to say about it.

it's going to be called "clones"

$10 laptop? If I remebered correctly, several years ago, india had the plan for $100 laptop, but it did not succeed. now $10?

well, last week, I bought a laptop for my son from toyrus, costed me $25, and it was on sale, 50% off. it has a 3.5' (or maybe 4') screen, it has a keyboard for 0-9,a-z, and it has 30 games for learning numbers and symbols. If this is available for $10, I think it is a great deal for young children.

david

If they do come out with it, I'll take three or four, thank you. I've always wanted to make a youtube video of me attacking a perfectly good laptop with a baseball bat...

And think of the companies buying them to give to their employees as prizes for top production or employee of the month!

I can hear it now, "I bust my a** and this is what I get?! I QUIT!!!"

In this case, i need to reserve 50 Laptops from now.
But trust me we expect that from Asia's Tigers.
$10 , i'm still shocked.

kids with laptops is definately better than kids with TV!

I got a free laptop with my last mobile phone contract...!!

You won't get a bare bones system for $10. It will be hounding you for trials left right and centre.

Some people will get good use of the $10 laptop but the typical family will end up being annoyed and caving in on all the latest offers jumping up in front of them...!!!!!!!

I still have to pay $45 a month for the contract..

cool, a lot of poor, motivated people coming online. sounds like more competition than more customers

The one who get's a laptop for $ 10.00 should drive also a Yugo

Timo

Here's a $10 Laptop. Now I want a $150 Postage charge to ship it to you!

How interesting, the other day I saw an Everex Cloudbook for sale at $200

Everex - The Alternative PC

It comes with a 30GB hard disk but uses Linux though

Sorry...

If it's not a MAC

I won't buy it!

I have a hard time believing a $10 laptop would actually work and be worth having. But I'll buy one and save a thousand dollars from buying a good, brand new one. Will be interesting to see.

That's ridiculous, if the laptop is $10 then the specs on that thing must be bare minimum, and I mean like 10 GB of memory and 256 mb of ram or something absolutely pathetic like that. I don't see how $10 could get you anything decent, I'd rather spend $500 and get a nice running laptop.

You guys do realize these are manufactured mostly for little kids for educational purposes? This is actually a really good thing for kids that aren't able to afford a computer to learn how to use them. That is very important for many jobs they will be going after later in life.

Not going to Happen!

I don't know, the One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a low-cost, connected laptop for the world's children's education guys have been trying for years now to get the cost under $US 100, and it's still at $US 200 - runs linux, etc.

I think they are supposed to release news on these things today.

With India being 11 or 12 hours ahead of me here, it's now after
8PM there.

Has anyone heard anything more on this, have they made the
announcement yet?

Scot

If you think it's impossible.... think again.... A low CPU/mem lapop that boots into a browser and uses applications like MS Office online.... and uses GDrive (a google initiative). BTW: 20$ cell phones are already very popular here. My driver uses one....

If the cost structure really would be that low (unrealistic, just from the operating system standpoint alone), it could be a boon to internet marketers as the less technically savvy would come online in droves.