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$500 = low cost in India? What are they high on?
Anyone who considers $500 "low-cost" in India is indeed high as a kite on some nasty bad crack. US$500 equates to around say 21000 Indian Rupee. When I visited India (Bombay) a few months ago, you could pick up full fledged PC's with a CRT monitor for that price, with the OS, Office 2007, etc thrown in.

I bet out of the $500, the real value of the hardware doesn't exceed 300 or 350 bucks, and the rest goes to microsoft for "licensing". How many weeks or months are they going to wait before they see this model fall flat on its proverbial face in countries like China and India where bootleg software is available cheap or free, in large quantities to anyone who wants it?

Last time I checked there, I could pick up the entire Adobe CS2 suite for 200 rupees which is around what.. 4-5 dollars?

The best solution for these countries is a low cost PC or laptop with a free OS and productivity software, and good support, not that microsoft support is anything to write home about. This way, they won't waste money on useless junk (windows?) they wouldn't have bought anyway, and use the extra 100-150 bucks on more powerful hardware and RAM.
Posted by: kraterz   Posted on: 06/27/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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$500?!  Stuka | 06/27/07
What made you think it was low end?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/27/07
It may not say "low-end"  Michael Kelly | 06/27/07
"less than $300 even with the MS software"  Jack-Booted EULA | 06/27/07
Maybe, but that doesn't answer the question  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/07
Low-cost typically mean low-end, and especially knowing this if for a  DonnieBoy | 06/28/07
Equally  zkiwi | 06/27/07
What I find REALLY surprising is that  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/27/07
Re: What I find REALLY surprising is that  mKind | 06/27/07
Not really ...  George Mitchell | 06/27/07
Aren't they already manufacturing?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/07
I wonder which is more likely to succeed...  zkiwi | 06/27/07
Or circumventing WGA, which is the tastiest opportunity of them all.  HypnoToad72 | 06/27/07
I can find a $399.99 PC with a $0.00 OS + productivity tools  Dr-T | 06/27/07
Great to see the the OLPC project has everybody thinking, BUT, this is a  DonnieBoy | 06/27/07
I have to correct myself, as a visit to Bestbuy.com"  Dr-T | 06/28/07
Does this have a monitor???? What are the specs????  DonnieBoy | 06/27/07
Another thing, Windows, MS Office, Photoshop, etc, are FREE in India.  DonnieBoy | 06/27/07
Yes, India is full of thieves.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/28/07
Just commenting on the state of affairs. Microsoft also actively promotes  DonnieBoy | 06/28/07
look for a solution  magarmuch@... | 06/28/07
I totally agree...  metville | 06/28/07
$500 = low cost in India? What are they high on?  kraterz | 06/27/07
stop blaming and look for a solution  magarmuch@... | 06/28/07

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