What's worse than a
$10 laptop that winds up costing $30? A
$10 $30 laptop that's
not really a laptop at all. India is shrugging off the disappointment surrounding its apparent failure to bring home-grown tech to its youth, but thankfully isn't giving up on the kids, ordering a whopping 250,000
OLPC XO laptops. Waiting this long to drink the Negroponte Kool Aid means 1,500 schools will get the
latest and greatest models, featuring
VIA C7-M processors and bumped up storage. The plan is for a total of three million portable computers for Indian schools this year, and while it's unclear just how many will be little, green, and different, that's a whole lot of lappys regardless.
