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What happened to the $20 laptop? 2:42pm on 06 Feb 2009 When i came across the news for the first time and the later reports on the product i remembered a story reported by some of the newspapers a few years ago telling that a boy of 8 years old made an Operating System for a computer and the product is equal or better and faster than Windows. Anyone who knew the processes an Operating System used to take care of laughed away the news.

Reading the news i was wondering what are they going to produce for a price of 10$ to 20$ when the product should carry a minimum set of components and interfaces that are expensive in the open market. But when i read about the government sponsorship and and later saw the picture in BBC NEWS on 3rd February i got curious and was waiting to see what is going to happen.

Now i am just wondering of the whole story was the imagination of the reporter? Did the development team or the sponsors ever claimed that they are going to build a Laptop? I was imagining that it should be supporting a web browser so that applications all web applications will work on the system. I could not imagine another cheaper way of bringing in useful information on the device useful for students.

But finally there was nothing presentable. Even to appreciate the basic works done on the system we need more information. I strongly feel that someone made a big mistake.

Waiting to hear more on this.

Regards
Crowly Mathew, Kerala, India
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