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Mon 02 Feb 2009India planning to produce €16 laptop
INDIA IS planning to produce a laptop computer for the knockdown price of about €16, having pioneered last year the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, for Rs100,000 (€1,600) a vehicle.
The project, backed by New Delhi, would considerably undercut the so-called “$100 laptop” designed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) of the US. The Children’s Machine was the centrepiece of a One Laptop Per Child campaign.
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