As expected, India's government unveiled the jointly-developed "
$10 laptop" today, now priced at $20. Unfortunately dubbed Sakshat, which ironically translates as "before your eyes," the laptop is slated to ship in six months, with specs in line with
what we've heard already: 2GB of storage, WiFi, Ethernet and 2 watts of power consumption. In fact, there really isn't much "unveiling" going on at all, since there's still no published image of the thing, or 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, but we suppose we'll find out this summer. 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.
posted February 3rd 2009 12:42PM
Really? They named is "Sakshat"?
They named it after what it is... a sack of shat
I'm guessing it only comes in various shades of brown.
its pronounced suhk-shaat, you philistines.
Oooh so it sucks shat? That doesn't really make it any better
Has Shatner been tapped to endorse?
I once worked with a guy with the last name of Dickshit. No kidding. Later changed it to Dixit. Wonder why?
"You kicked Nimoy in the Sack, Shat!"
-couldn't resist. :p
last I heard the minister of New Delhi was named Dikshit, really bad luck to inherit that name...
It's pronounced sack-shat, you thespians.
Get that shat out of here!
Ohhh I cant wait for the accessory line to be named!!!
The ballsmouse - 1.99
The bagashit backpack - 6.99
The Extadashlong 12 cell battery - 34.99
indian for "before your eyes", british slang for "sack of sh*t".
oh, the ironing.
but this is why you see indians in call centers, not marketing.
ironing? and the word its shite!
when your done, can you iron my pants too?
your vs. you're
figure it out.
Stop trying to win.
I thought you had ironing to do.
At least Indians know how to spell, douche!
I want one of these and also a Tata Nano
Life is good when you spend 1/25th the cost on car and tech...
woot!
Ten! Ten dollar! Ten dollar laptop!
Looks like something shat out of my sac.
Sorry.
Really? U sure you are not looking at the reflection on the screen? Is the Webcam on?
Who knows, maybe it doesn't have a LCD screen, and you would have to connect it via S-Video to a TV set.
So they are reinventing the Commodore 64?
what kinda chip you got in there? a dorrito?
Or maybe it's a black and white 320x240 screen.
They reinvented the palm pilot and made it HUGE!
I'm calling Bogus. This isn't going to happen.
Here is the link of it
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/upa-woos-young-voters-with-rs-500-laptop/84356-3.html?from=rssfeed
That picture at in dot com is NOT the $0 Indian laptop. That picture is something totally different costing like $300 made by a company called Milead or something.
Anyways, why would you have a bunch of model bimbos showing off laptops for children's education.
In fact, there are no pictures of the Indian $0 laptop. I'm guessing it may be a pure bunch of hoax, vapourware that about 500 lazy blog writers just copied from one another without even stopping up to think for one second if this story about a $10 Indian laptop was joke.
The picture makes it look pretty thin.. but I'm betting for 20$ it will be like 3 inches "think" :p
It's mistranslation.it costs $100
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7864806.stm
That's a little more believable. Thanks for the clarification.
Can't wait till they hit Wal-Mart, with the Wal Mart discount I bet it will be around 19.88, what a deal.
I read somewhere that it has 2GB of ram. Is that true?
i think its 2 GB hard drive no specs on ram and procesor. read the article
And that's made of what? Paper?
Man if only Russell peters wrote for engadget....
I give you best price! Firty Four, Fifty!
Even if this laptop fails to live up to expectations: the very thought of wanting to give the masses the ability to get online is awe inspiring and should be congradulated.
or feared...75% of the people on the internet now don't belong on the internet
@ Jay Voorhees
You're saying 1 in 4 of us DO belong on the internet? dude, that's the fear itself FDR was warning us about.
This is on average the stupidest set of comments I've ever read.
you don't read engadget that often, do you?
That's the thing. I read Engadget all the time. This is just... exceptional. You've outdone yourself, engadget readers.
So... that would qualify this as a FAIL WIN!
more like sack of sh**
The sound 'A' does not exist in the Hindi language. The sound here is AHHH(basically opening your mouth wide and pronouncing from your throat) , so for the ignorant idiots on these comments-- its SHAAK-SHAAT (not shakshat), the spelling does not translate the sound esp in English.
P.S--: Displaying your ignorance and stupidity to the world is just sad & not something you should be proud of.
it's actually Saakshaat (the t is soft, instead of snapping the tongue while saying it, slowly push against the upper teeth)
@Dan, not only stupid but quite racist, taking the piss out a foreign language just cos it contains a 'rude word' in english. Real mature.