The World's First $99 Laptop Debuts

From PC World: We've been hearing about the "$100 laptop"--a no-frills, low-power portable that meets the educational needs of children in developing nations--for a few years now. But no product has materialized--at least not at the $100 price point--until now. Cherrypal has launched a $99 portable, the Cherrypal Africa, a "mini-netbook" built to bring Internet access to the world's poor.

The Cherrypal Africa's specs won't impress anyone -- a goes-without-saying fact the netbook's builder doesn't deny. "Make no mistake, the Cherrypal is not a fancy system. It’s small, just a 7-inch screen, no thrills and admittedly not exactly fast, though good enough to browse the web," writes company founder Max Seybold on the GreenOpenFair blog.

"We here at Cherrypal decided to build a laptop for those who can’t afford to spend a couple of hundred dollars," he adds. The $99 computer was named "Africa" in honor of PAAJAF, a humanitarian services group based in Ghana, West-Africa.

In addition to the 7-inch display, the Cherrypal Africa has a 400-MHz processor, 256 MB RAM, and 2 GB of flash memory. It runs either Linux or Windows CE. The netbook is available at Cherrypal's online store.

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