$10 Indian laptop to actually cost $100, anyone surprised?

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Come on, you didn’t really believe that a $10 laptop was even remotely possible, did you? Yeah, didn’t think so — and unsurprisingly, that project sponsored by the Indian government to develop a low-cost laptop actually has a price target of $100, not $10. Chalk another one up to poor transcription, we suppose, although getting the price of a fair machine down to $100 won’t be all that easy, either — any bets on where the final price of that thing ends up?

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Original post by Nilay Patel

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