Coby’s 7-inch, $85 smartbook!
Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by Jes Darmanin in New Releases
The release of netbooks have driven down the prices on laptops quite a bit, and now, it’s apparent that a new breed of even smaller machines are being born. Seems like the era of the SmartBooks is on it’s way.
Bargain electronics manufacturer Coby has been a showing new portable this week at the CeBIT expo that will cost, according to Engadget, just $85. Yes, you read that right! only $85! (About 65EUR!)
For starters, the screen is just 7 inches, which places it squarely between most 10-inch netbooks and smaller MIDs. It is powered by an Intel Atom processor(624MHz), and 2GB of flash-based storage (Which is expandable by SD Cards). You also have to live with Windows CE rather than Windows XP or Windows 7 as your OS. But most importantly, it has built-in 802.11b/g (but not 802.11n) Wi-Fi for checking email and viewing Web pages.
This is a great device for those who just want to take this around for casual email, browsing and small tasks.
Paul Chopping
06. Mar, 2010
nice :) – it's going to be interesting when someone puts a totally stripped down version of XP on it. and uploads the video to youtube. :)