$10 Laptop Coming Februrary 3rd...to India

If India can do it, why can't we?

What is the deal with all the other countries taking advantage of great ideas like this and the great, ha ha ha, US thinking that we are to good for a $20 laptop? or a $5000 car? That is what is about right? We have to have the most expensive of everything and now we have kicked off a national depression formed out of greed. I want to be able to buy a $5000 car since this is a free country (if you have the money to be free country). I have a new truck so I am not saying this because I can not afford it or because I am lazy and dont want to work. Its just why do I need to spend $15000 on a truck, truth is I don't and rather spend the money on something else because I do not have endless amounts.

I hope they set up the tech support phone center in the U.S. I would quit my job and go to work there. I would be sure make every caller wait an hour, then read from a script that sounds like a 4th grader wrote it. "Unplug all the cords for 30 minutes, then turn it back on." etc... And I would speak in such a thick accent that they won't understand me at all so callers would eventually get frustrated and hang up.

The Indians would still be one up on us...they will only pay $10 for their peice of crap, we pay a thousand and still get treated like that.

WORTH NOTING: I OWN AN ANSWERING SERVICE IN CHESTER VA. AND WOULD BE NOTHING LIKE KEEPING SOME OF THAT OUTSOURCING HERE, AND FRANKLY WE CAN DO AS MUCH HERE TO DO BUSINESS HERE AND MOST LIKELY DO IT BETTER AS WE MOSTLY SPEEK ENGLISH AND ALL DAY LONG I GET CALLS FROM CALLERS WE CANT UNDERSTAND THAT ARE SOLICITING OR (A COMPUTER COMPANY COLLECTOR) CALLING AND THEY JUST DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT WE ARE SAYING AND VICE-VERSA. COME ON AMERICA KEEP IT HERE AND "A TRI-CITIES CONNECTION IN VA CAN HELP YOU DO THAT AND WE WILL HIRE WHAT IT TAKES TO DO THAT JOB HERE.
OUTSOURCING CONCERNED

there is no $10 laptop, the price is being artificially determined and does not include the cost of the materials, labor or anything else.

SOMEONE will be paying for that laptop to be ten dollars, it just won't be the consumer

It also probably doesn't include the externalized costs of manufacturing the cheap plastics to make the laptop and the chemical waste that will be a by-product of the production of the manufacturing of parts for this $10 laptop.

never mind where we dispose of that waste or the laptop itself when it wears out. I can't imagine a ten dollar laptop having too long a life span

computer labs at schools, colleges and libraries are much more realistic and practical.

This...$10 laptop is either an unrealistic fantasy or it will be a horrible reality

Back in the 80's so many things were "made in Mexico", as it was cheap labor and kept down cost. The quality sucked and things started moving to Taiwan and as they got more into electronics and their labor went up things migrated to China. I've been to China a few times and learned that even the Chinese know they have poor quality on low end products and they know to choose the best quality for their dollar. A $10 computer in India, or the $5K car, is going to be so cheaply made. Do people not realize that CHINA/INDIA MADE means CRAP MADE. Lets keep our industry going and keep our quality products going here in the U.S.

Wow... I would not mind a laptop like that... The fact is that it can be done. but We here in the U.S are to Dollar driven we won't do it..not engough profit in it.. America can do anything it puts it mind to IF IF we wanted to. But the good of the countie unfortantly does not outweigh the DOLLAR at this time.........

I think it's a shame.. the same deals can't be offered to America and Canada's children..

so what is the fucking point. if it aint here,dont waste my fucking time.

We lose out again.

Can we please take care of the American children first! Our children should have computers of their own before we attempt to be concerned about another country's youth.