Recently, it was reported that India’s HRD ministry is planning to introduce $10 laptops to children.
Now, Techtree is reporting that Intel may bring it’s low cost classmate PCs to India as part of its World Ahead Program. Pilot tests were conducted in some Delhi schools.
Designed for school going children, the classmate PC sports a 900MHz Celeron Processor, Flash memory (no hard disk). While OLPC’s laptops cost around 170$, these classmate PCs might cost around $280 dollars each, but the cost may fall with time.
The cost seems to be good – considering it takes $600 for an average PC here in India. Even though these computers are less expensive, I wonder who’ll train the students to use it. There’s no good infrastructure in India, and there are not so many teachers with necessary qualifications. The quality/standard of computer education is very low. This project is another hype, I say.
Where would students store their projects if at all there’s good teaching? Should they buy additional flash memory 
Viable PCs are better than Affordable PCs in my opinion. Shoot your views in the comments.
