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yes cheap laptops exist, but the point is the last cheap Hivision laptop that showed up everywhere never materialized so it's safe to assume this might be vaporware as well.

The hivision mini note was reported to offer Linux, wifi, 1gb flash storage, 3 USB ports, ethernet, SDHC card reader, audio in and out, voice chat and the multi-tabbed firefox browser.

The devices you linked to run the 6 yr old Windows CE 5.0 OS which was popular for $200 PDAs in 2004, 266 and 400mhz processors, and no mention of the type of browser but claim to play flash videos by downloading them and watching on a flash player. The only difference between these "cheap laptops" and PDAs from 2004 is the $100 price difference, the larger screen and the attached keyboard.

I really hope I'm wrong, I'd love to see a $100 Android laptop because someone already offers the $100 Android PDA

"just hope these don't turn out to be vaporware"

Hivision's last laptop turned out to be vapoware so I don't expect to see this one either.

The $98 Hivision Mini Note never materialized, despite tons of press. It's been almost 18 months since the supposed release date and they still don't even exist on ebay.

Agreed, even less on ARM processor. http://techvideoblog.com/reviews/80-android-laptop-menq-easypc-e790/. There's still a possibility that google will port it's Chrome+Android to this platform.