Few things have changed since then, they have dropped the name of IIT Kanpur, it is now much clear that the tablet is being made by a Canadian company Datawind Technologies and the earlier claim about IIT Kanpur’s involvement is not true. Tablets are for fun, laptop for work A user study by Google clearly points this out “Tablets are for fun, laptop for work” in which top activities reported were email checking, playing games and social networking. OLPC XO Laptop While I personally never got chance to use OLPC XO laptop, the reason I would rate it higher is that it has a backing of a community committed to improving it and a keyboard (which kids can use to generate content).