Intel has announced that they will market a rural PC in India before year's end. The price-point is sub-10,000 Rs ($255). The computer will be dust-, insect- and water-resistant, with low power requirements. It can be powered from a car battery when line power is unavailable. The pc is being tested at 10 locations around India.

This is quite a different approach from the MIT project: introducing commercial products that are specifically tailored to non-traditional markets such as rural India, rather than a single model aimed at mass government purchases.