A laptop computer for under $100

Did it come from Toshiba or Samsung? No. Dell? No. How about SONY or Apple? Hardly. The netbook did not come from these companies, either. But once it appeared and it was popular, all these big, sluggish, inbred companies jumped on it, except Apple. The netbook, by the way, was the creation of Asus, in Taiwan.

Cherrypal. Yup. Cherrypal. That’s the company that’s cracked the $100 price point for a web browsing computer. Origins are in Silicon Valley and are now owned by Tristate Lifestyle Brands (Tristate Hong Kong Group Limited).

PC maker Cherrypal has done something Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child couldn't do: make a laptop that breaks the US$100 price barrier.

Cherrypal on Tuesday announced a no-frills laptop called Cherrypal Africa, which includes hardware usually found in smartphones. It can run the Linux or Windows CE operating systems, which are also found on cell phones.

If these catch on you will see all the fat, bloated, greasy, drooling PC makers clamouring to produce their own sub-$100 PCs, likely for $129 due to Microsoft’s bullying in on the action, appearing soon.

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