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.
上述項目得到印度政府的支持,其售價將遠低於美國麻省理工學院(MIT)設計的所謂「100美元筆記型電腦」。「孩子們的電腦」(The Children's Machine)是 「每個兒童一臺筆記型電腦」(One Laptop Per Child, OLPC)的核心,這一創意是由電腦科學家、原麻省理工學院媒體實驗室主任尼克拉斯•內格羅蓬特(Nicholas Negroponte)提出的。英特爾(Intel)推出了一款類似的產品作爲回應,名爲「同班同學」(Classmate)。但是,」孩子們的電腦」在印度受到了冷遇。