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India orders 250,000 OLPC laptops

May 3, 2009 17:16 IST

Image: The OLPC's XO Laptop.
Photographs: Sanjay Sawant

The '$10, world's cheapest laptop', developed in India has been given a quiet burial with the government placing an order for 250,000 XO laptops from the Nicholas Negroponte-led One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation.

The $10 'laptop' had turned into a major bone of contention with the global IT industry and experts blasting the device that was earlier projected as a challenger to the $100 laptop of the OLPC project.

Meanwhile, Satish Jha, OLPC India president and CEO, was quoted in the media as saying that the OLPC XO laptops "have been ordered for 1,500 schools (throughout the country) and the deliveries will begin in June."

$10 laptop flops, India orders 250,000 OLPC laptops

Image: Nicholas Negroponte, Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shows a model of the $100 laptop computer he developed for the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) nonprofit group.

$10 laptop flops, India orders 250,000 OLPC laptops

Image: A child working on his XO laptop
Photographs: Sanjay Sawant

$10 laptop flops, India orders 250,000 OLPC laptops

Image: Nigerian pupils work on computers at the LEA primary school in Abuja.
Photographs: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters