Can India make a laptop for under $10?

Right now it is impossible. Even the cover needs more than 500 bucks

Well Laptop around  Rs. 500 is no impossible thing But yeah surely it need few people to shed off some extra money from their pocket.

Keyboard original manufacturing cost comes nearly to 40-80

India need to develop their own processor like INTEL,AMD or like INTEL ATOM dat wont be a rocket science. wE GOT IITs for that

Operating System - LINUX (free of cost , easy to learn , with minimum memory and ram required)

RAM and HD - old HD and RAM can be used after  re-setting them.

All intotal this concept is feasible .

and atlast its INDIA where life run on "JUGGAD"

Hey, That is really ridiculous...Instead why not give for free.!!!

Pen Drive just hold data and cost 300-500 :) so u validatied my point ..... who will build a cpu that comes in this cost  :)) and offcourse some memory to load up some apps and the board to hold them all

Yes china market gives tough fight for rates but the dont do magic...

I don't think it will be possible. Converting flash drives to cpu is impossible because both are two different kinds of technologies. One is memory in MOS like technology which can only store taking commands and the other is TTL technology with little memory and more logic circuits meaning one is made of magnetic materials which can be polarised and non polarised for 0's and 1's in either directions and ttl is transistors which require power supply to maintain threshold memory.

Considering the business side investors invest for making profits and at this costs profits will be less may be non existent even the costs cannot be covered like fixed and variable costs, cpus are costly to manufacture cheaper ones and the facilities cannot recover investment costs in stipulated time frame meaning payback periods will be longer discouraging investors. For Tatas Nano is only one division of their larger operations. They make money in their major divisions, here they need to just breakeven or even the designs can be outsourced from other divisions and only assembly is to be done. This way this particular division can be profitable. For a lap top one should have all the infrastructure to be built up from scratch for this particular mission.

If it is possible then it will be interesting to see on the scalability factor......

In India will not happen for this thing.

Student laptop is available for $25,hence chances are there for$ 10 shortly.

BUT CHINA WILL DO FIRST.

At first glance this question would gives an answer impossible or unrealistic and was on the verge of saying just this. However, in discussion with my company MIS SPECIALIST, he said it is possible. Awaiting the launching of this project.