“$ 100 Laptop” – a no-frills, low-laptop power meeting the educational needs of children in developing countries – for some years. However, no product has not materialized – at least not in the price of $ 100 – until now. CherryPal introduced a $ 99 laptop, the CherryPal Africa, a “mini-netbook”, built for the transport of Internet access for the poor of the world.
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“We are here to CherryPal decided to build a laptop for those who can afford to spend hundreds of dollars,” he said. The computer 99 has been called “Africa” in honor of PAAJAF, a humanitarian group based service in Ghana, West Africa.
In addition to the 7-inch screen, Africa CherryPal has a 400 MHz processor, 256 MB of RAM and 2 GB of flash memory. It runs on Linux or Windows CE. The netbook is available on CherryPal’s online store.
Seybold estimated $ 99 Africa can find a niche in developed countries. “There are still more than 15 million Americans who can not afford their own laptops, they must go to a public library, or living without access to Internet at all, it becomes more difficult,” said.
CherryPal, headquartered in Palo Alto, California and Hong Kong is one of the three states of Hong Kong Group Limited.
This is not the first CherryPal has released an ultra low-cost netbooks. In July 2008, announced the cheapest laptop in the world, “the $ 139 Impulse NPX-9000. That price, however, was only available to customers who purchased volume of 100 units or more.
Non-profit One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) also offers a no-frills mini-note. Patrons can purchase $ 199 laptop OLPC, OLPC, which is then delivered to students from developing countries.
Anyone reading this probably does not want a $ 99 CherryPal Africa, which sounds terribly possible for the types of Web tasks we take for granted. However, the mini-laptop can have a bright future in less developed regions of the world, provided that carries out its promise as a reliable installation, low-built primarily for Internet access basis. We will know more when we lay hands on one.
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