Beware Cheap Laptops
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Network world has a report of something claiming to be the “world’s cheapest laptop“. However just because this thing can be had for as little as $130 doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a good idea.
It’s called the Impulse NPX-9000. This laptop has a paltry 400mhz cpu in it which would be fine for running win98 but would work a lot harder for win xp, which is probably why it ships with Linux as it’s OS. This is great as I believe that more people need to make the change to linux but it’s not so great in that it’s giving the user linux on an underpowered system that will probably underperform.
It’s only got 128MB of ram, where today’s computers typically have 1 or 2 Gigabytes. This further guarantees that you’ll never run XP on it.
The specs say it’s got a 1GB hard drive but watch out, that’s not a disk drive in there, it’s 1gb of flash memory.
Then there’s the little fact that in order to get that price you have to buy them 100 units at a time. combine that with the fact that it’s made in China and only has a seven inch screen and all I can say is No thanks. I wouldn’t touch these things for anything.
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Umm, dude. What did you expect to get for $130, a super fast gaming laptop? This laptop running linux is more than capable of achieving basic web browsing, IM sessions, and email. You say that you have to buy them in 100 units at a time. No doubt they are designed for businesses to be dummy or input terminals. Which they are over specced for.
Perhaps my expectations *are* a bit high, but then again I think it’s better to have more capacity in the event it’s ever needed instead of finding out later ( like I have many times) that what you thought was enough or even “over specced” turned out to be not enough.
As for $130… I guess I shouldn’t expect much. One of the responses to the article I referred to had this to say about it: