The $37 Laptop. For Real

[Johnboy60]

Walk into any toy store and you’ll see a “laptop” “computer”, a plastic clamshell that has all of the design cues of a notebook: keyboard, screen, some ports and switches, but none of the power. It’s cheap enough to buy for (and disappoint) a kid, but it isn’t of course a real computer. It probably has a few built in games and that’s it.

The Ebay $37 laptop is almost that same machine, although it looks even more like the computers it pretends to be. It runs Windows CE on a 300 MHz ARM VIA processor with 128kb RAM and a whopping 2GB storage. The huge bezel around the tiny 7-inch 800 x 480 screen has space for a pair of speakers either side, and you even get an ethernet jack and a couple USB ports (take that, iPad) along with Wi-Fi. You can also slot-in an SD card.



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[Dark_Lite]

128kb of RAM? They probably could have made it at least 128 MB and still have it cost < 50 dollars...

 

[lawtonfogle]

128kb of RAM? They probably could have made it at least 128 MB and still have it cost < 50 dollars...

CPU/Motherboard/OS/something-else probably doesn't support a 1024 times increase in memory.

 

[cheese007]

It actually says 128MB in the eBay ad.