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"World's Cheapest Laptop" Available in Bulk Only
BobB writes to tell us that what one company is calling the "world's cheapest laptop" is now available at the price of $130. Unfortunately if you want to buy one you will also need to convince 99 of your closest friends to go in on an order with you since you cannot buy in less than units of 100. We have covered several "cheap laptops" in the past and many have turned out to be fraudulent, so especially with a large up-front cost, buyer beware. "The Impulse NPX-9000 laptop has a 7-inch screen and comes with the Linux OS. It has a 400MHz processor, 128M bytes of RAM, 1G byte of flash storage and an optional wireless networking dongle. It includes office productivity software, a Web browser and multimedia software."
I'm just an anonymous coward and I don't have 99 friends.
For the Beowulf crowd... just imagine.....
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
With specs like that. It's pretty much useless.
That's what she said.
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
But...but...I can't go down to starbucks to play WoW and pwn newbs...plus this thing doesn't even have lights on the case.
Ginga no Rekshiya Mata Each page.
I was with you right up until you re-installed ME. Turn in your geek card. Now.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
You pay $130 and when you get ten of your friends to pay $130 they send you a laptop. It's called a pyramid scheme.
End Sarcasm
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
128 Megs of ram is useless. I am speaking from incompetence.
Fixed that for ya.
To be fair, most people don't have the specialized competence needed to run a computer properly.
Most people in the affluent West are just consumers. Typically they can't tune their own cars, heat their own homes or hunt their own food either. In the worst cases, some people haven't been educated to do anything more useful than consume corn syrup and TV shows... they are like big ol' plants.
Except for slower processor, half the RAM, one eight the storage, non-integrated WiFi requiring an extra dongle, no bluetooth, lack of GPS, no cellphone hardware, inability to make calls, no built-in iTunes music and app stores, doesn't fit in your pocket, weighs 5x as much, and it could be vaporware. Yeah, besides all that, its a much better thing to type on than a cellphone...
This is where I get my recommended daily allowance of "Foot in Mouth."