World's Cheapest Laptop may just be the world's cheapest laptop

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.]

[Benson Posted Jul 21st 2008 7:37PM]

It does that... for those with no counter-measures, anyway.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 21st 2008 5:07PM]

Wow. that sadly has more features than my parents' computer, and it's more powerful also

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 21st 2008 6:22PM]

Hmmmm, MacBook Air vs. World's Cheapest Laptop...
AND THE WEINER IS
W.C.L.

[Benson Posted Jul 21st 2008 7:32PM]

Hey Clak!

You suck at reply-defense shield configuration!

:P

BTW, you look like a moron.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 21st 2008 8:01PM]

In New Zealand you can buy a Asus EEE 700 for $395 (NZD) this works out to be 298 USB.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2008 2:12PM]

Other than it being a disposable PC that you're not going to miss if your kid spills his juice cup on it, I just don't get it.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2008 6:52PM]

Assuming the MIPS processor comment is incorrect (that it's difficult to run other programs for x86), this isn't that bad of a machine. Can the Ram be stretched any (like to 256MB)? I just got a 8GB USB stick to put a full OS on for $11.

I use a P3-500Mhz (and a P2-300Mhz that's a bit heavier) for travel and client presentations. They run Xubuntu 8.04 (as modern of an OS as released in April this year) and work perfect for the need. I run Open Office on both. I have a slightly faster 2.4Ghz desktop main work box (also with Xubuntu).

These will have some success as they are inexpensive. Especially if you buy a lot of 50 and ebay all but one or two for $175 each (netting $2200 if covering other costs with shipping). Then you can take that cash and buy a desktop wonder station for home and ssh/vnc or whatever into it from the road.

The portability is key for this unit as well as the success of the eee pc. There will be other entries now that manufacturers realize that people will buy a lot of small inexpensive machines - most people not playing games are just surfing, editing blogs, and reading news. You don't need that much horsepower to do those tasks well.

J