The tablets are an endevaour by the Indian Government to reach out to the farmers as a means of communication to advise them about crops and similar kind of work.
I don't understand how the farmers are going to receive this information since bandwidth is limited and expensive in India. I am working near the city of Vadodara in Gujarat. Where I stay at a 5 star hotel, the Internet costs $12 per day and sometimes the bandwidth sinks so low it is unusable. My iPhone 4 works great with 3G in the city, but just outside the city where I work, there is only EDGE connection and even if the connection is strong, the available Internet bandwidth is almost nonexistant. Is there 3G capability in this cheap tablet? Where are these farmers getting the wifi connection? Then how do they pay for the bandwidth if they can get it? The daily headline here is that people in the villages don't make enough money to eat.
These limits are only on XP based netbooks whereas the Linux netbooks can be much more powerful if the manufacturer wishes it.
The question in my mind is why Dell chose not to offer the more powerful hardware options for Linux. They offer the same limited hardware even if you order ubuntu installed. Perhaps they just want to keep their inventory simplified, but I suspect if it Microsoft hegemony.
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. - Seneca
