For
as per to the latest government initiative, the Aakash
tablets would also be made available to
students via their school or
college libraries similar to the way they are issued any other books.
At some point the «
college student» crowd (read «those on a budget») may «switch» to
tablets as a «term paper machine» but that will only be when 1) these can run office - type apps; and 2) when the
tablet, with a keyboard dock, can compete with netbooks in providing close to the same functionality (word processing, working with PDF documents, presentation preparation, light working with video, storage of gigabytes of files).