We've gotta admire the functional naming here. "World's Cheapest Laptop." Hard to get that one confused with the
world's almost-cheapest laptop, or similar pretenders. From what we can glean from this laptop's Alibaba page, it's built by Impulse, sports an NPX-9000 model number, and gives new meaning to the term craptop when it comes to specs. The 7-inch screen is accompanied by a 400MHz, MIPS processor, 128MB of RAM, 1GB of flash storage, and a few USB ports and an SD card slot. You'll be filling up one of those ports with a WiFi dongle, and we're guessing that SD card slot will be your lifeline for storing just about everything that isn't the Linux operating system. The wholesale price is $130 US, with a 50 unit minimum purchase. $6,500 for a laptop for you and 49 of your closest frenemies? We're sold.
[Thanks, Seema R.]
posted Jul 21st 2008 11:28AM
You know I have a 1993 B/W display PS/Note that runs Win 3.1 and does almost all the same things this one does -- a step back perhaps?
You get what you pay for!
I now see the beauty of EeePc. It costs a bit more, but it is well worth the premium
"You get what you pay for!
I now see the beauty of EeePc. It costs a bit more, but it is well worth the premium"
That's why we fanboys buy Apple computers.
premium?.. that might be the rated wholesale price, but u can prob bet it can be picked up in china somewhere for $50 tops lol.
Collective Soul - Afterwords. Awesome avatar man!!! LOVE those guys.
Even a Windows 3.1 computer was capable of email, word-processing, photos and music - almost everything except video! 100MHz went a long way before software got as bloated as it is now.
If anything is a step back, it's modern bloated operating systems and software that do the same tasks slower on a 3GHz CPU than the lean and mean software as yester-year ran on a 100MHz CPU.
Adobe Acrobat would run like molasses whereas 3rd party pdf readers would run smooth. I can see where this is going.
it's slower than an iphone
Evan, you sir need more RAM and a SSD.
it may be crap, but it's lowering the bar on what people will expect to pay for technology in the future.
i like it's price
yeah, especially the 50 unit minimum. what a deal!
They sell these things at Costco
can it play doom?
Dear god why would you go there?!
Wow, that was creative.
Can it play Solitaire? The winking king's on the back of the deck might use too many resources.
I laughed. Man, you Engadget guys are haters! : )
it's a MIPS processor. you can't run windows for sure. you can run modified linux, but then Wine only works on x86. so... no it doesn't play doom (i guess).
If they made doom for the PS2, then yes, it could.
Because 3d aside, that's what this is.
@initialxy: Doom's code is open source, and it runs in any linux, no matter the platform, as long as SDL compiles for it. And it does for most platforms. So, yeah, it will probably play Doom quite right. Even with fancy graphic improvements and decent resolution.
@High Ranks...
What about the skiing game with the monster/robot. Just when I thought I was about to beat the damn thing, the monster/robot always came out for me
forget doom, whay about crysis,
on second thoughts, can it emultate a nes
my xda has to have more processing power than that...
...and it can play doom.
Does it blow up, too? Like them, the Sonys?
eee pc 701 its well worth over that!
Not EEE PC 901...lol
how can you say 128mb ram is not luxurious..?
look at it this way,. its twice as luxurious than if it had 64 mb.
pshh macbook air.
50 x "worlds cheapest laptop" please
lol LUXURIOUS
your comment cracked me up badly
Why are you all complaining about having to buy 50 of them for $6,500?
Look at what all you get!
6,400MB RAM
50 1 GB HDs (1 gig each)
150 USB ports
Yeah... I'm stretching here.
Don't forget about the 19,200,000 pixels, which should come in very handy! (literally)
wow, except for the combined pixels of all those displays if you combined all 50 into one computer that would still be a pretty bad deal, for $6,500. I mean, 6.5 gigs of RAM would probably run you around $400, the combined 20 GHz of processing power could be covered by two quad core processors that would run you maybe $1,000... the USB ports you could daisy chain for probably $300. So I guess the case and screen run you the other 4.8k...
"6.5 gigs of RAM would probably run you around $400"
-john
Where do you get your ram? You can get 8 GB of ram from Newegg for under 200!
I priced mine off newegg, but minimized the slots used, so that includes the cost of a 4 gb stick.
Hey guys, remember when we were going to have an 100$ laptop?
wHY wOULD aNYONE cAPITALIZE eVERY wORD?
OCD
A woman I work with does that and it drives me crazy. I once offered to fix her broken keyboard. She says "but my keyboard is working fine..." and I told her that her caps lock key is stuck on. She admitted that she doesn't like to turn it off long enough to send an email because she goes right back to work that requires her to use CAPS LOCK. Oh and she also uses a 19" flat panel monitor at 800x600 and which makes me want to cry every time I see it.
He Was Proving That The Shift Key On His MacBook Air Still Worked.
wow talk about crap 128mb of ram??? I haven't seen a pc come with that amount since what, 2002? 512mb of ram and I'm sold.
512mb of ram generally (unfortunately) brings along a price tag of 512$. though, i'm not quite sure why in god's fucking name that is, since..
an atom, 512 of ram (even 1/2gb is cheap enough these days) an 80gb hd, and a 10 inch screen with wifi etc shouldn't cost us 549!!
what do you guys think the actual cost of these laptops are to build? someone should do that isuppli shit they did for the iphone, because i doubt it's too much over 200$ to build one of these (not this one, i mean the eee & cousins).
if they actually sold them for less then 300, i'd have bought one. but this is ridiculous.
@ Zach
You do get that even as technology becomes cheaper due to it being older, there is still a line where prices will not fall below due to cost of production right?
If you're an Apple fanboy you're a twat. If you're a wind-up merchant you're a twat. Either way, you're a twat.
That was directed at Ocean; comment reply shat itself.
It does that.
It does for those with no counter-measures, anyway.
I'm with you. Gotta have my 1440x900 screen. Most of these are like a third of that...
And getting more than one simply doesn't accomplish the same thing as getting a better machine, like this $1020 ($870 after gotapex coupon) inspiron 1420n
Way to go, engadget comment system!
*golf clap*
yeah, it does that.
It does for those with no counter-measures, anyway.
for 130 bucks, i could find many uses for this thing!
- In-car GPS - 7" screen is perfect
- PMP
- A remote control for my fancy HTPC over vnc & wifi
- Disposable Kids Laptop (ages 2-5)
- Folio?!
- add your own..