The project, backed by New Delhi, would considerably undercut the US's Massachusetts' Institute of Technology-designed so-called “$100 laptop”. The Children's Machine was the centrepiece of the One Laptop Per Child campaign, an initiative launched by Nicholas Negroponte, the computer scientist and former director of MIT's Media Lab. Intel launched a similar product, called Classmate, in response. But the Children's Machine received a cool reception in India.
上述项目得到印度政府的支持,其售价将远低于美国麻省理工学院(MIT)设计的所谓“100美元笔记本电脑”。“孩子们的电脑”(The Children's Machine)是 “每个儿童一台笔记本电脑”(One Laptop Per Child, OLPC)的核心,这一创意是由计算机科学家、原麻省理工学院媒体实验室主任尼克拉斯•内格罗蓬特(Nicholas Negroponte)提出的。英特尔(Intel)推出了一款类似的产品作为回应,名为“同班同学”(Classmate)。但是,”孩子们的电脑”在印度受到了冷遇。