$10 Laptop Downgraded By Reality; Now Fancy Storage Device 143
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.
Re:portable computer (Score:3, Informative)
Re:portable computer (Score:5, 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 [indiatimes.com] 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.
Re:Wireless storage for $10? (Score:5, Informative)
At a puny capacity of 2GB, you'll have to take three.
Re:Why so expensive? (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.