Cherrypal Launches World's First $99 Laptop
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Cherrypal Launches World's First $99 Laptop
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#2They are 'available' in the store:
http://www.cherrypal.com/openstore/product_info.php?products...;
Though I don't think I'd trust it. If they can actually afford to sell them for $99 it is actually kind of a neat product just from a hacking point of view.. I could think of lots of little projects to build using one. $99 is about the same you'd pay for an Arduino + WiFi, and that doesn't include battery, display etc..
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#3I'm sorry but at 400Mhz/256MB I can't possibly use that as a computer. Firefox would barely load 3 tabs.
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#4I'm sorry but at 400Mhz/256MB I can't possibly use that as a computer. Firefox would barely load 3 tabs.
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#5"launched Cherrypal Open Store, which features products designed by Apple, Dell and others. All non-Cherrypal products featured in the Open Store are priced at least 30 percent less than the manufacturer's suggested retail price, but carry Cherrypal's unconditional 30-day money back guarantee."
Except they kind of just made up the suggested retail price of the Mac's. Just selling them for $50 less; but don't include shipping so same price as any other retailer.
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#6I'm sorry but at 400Mhz/256MB I can't possibly use that as a computer. Firefox would barely load 3 tabs.
Do most people need 3 tabs?
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#7Enough with the toy computers. This race to the bottom is sickening.
I understand the third world could benefit from this. I ask though why do they have to get crap? They don't need as much as us, I understand that. Why can't we work on giving them good hardware? We can bail out banks and try to cure aids. I think were more than capable of a better solution and making the economics work.
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#8256GB ram? My PC only has 4.
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#9What? These zombies are back from the dead? Bring a shotgun and aim for the head.
Ok, that might be harsh. But they've taken a couple runs at the computer appliance/cloud storage market. It isn't unusual to see "Product XYZ! Soon to be released [date 6 months in the past]!" on their web site.
They might need to work on the website too. I'm getting a cloud of database errors mixed in with the page:
1062 - Duplicate entry '3d4c38322166524845a005d0d2c87438' for key 1Re: Cherrypal Launches World's First $99 Laptop
#10How much of that $99 is the Windows CE or XP license? At those prices, including a non-free OS, it seems too good to be true.
Why do they preach open source, yet not got all the way and use an open source OS?