6ave.com has the Visual Land VL760-4GB 7" Widescreen Netbook for $128 with free shipping. Sports an 248MHz ARM processor, 7" 800x480 display, 4GB flash memory, 64MB DDR RAM, SD Card slot, WiFi, Windows CE 5.0, and 3 USB ports.
Saw this on another email list I'm on. Windows CE? Really?
Someone must have dug up some old stock in a storage unit somewhere and decided to dump it on the market to pay the storage bill. This isn't even enough to run Ubuntu on.
Now - price them at $25 each including shipping and I might be in on a couple to use for my applications that have to run DOS.
These stupid things are all over Craigslist too. Definitely trying to take advantage of morons who think "Ooo! Netbook! I've heard that word before!" and have no idea what specs to look for.
Good idea #2, as long as you can find an ARM build of DOS, and whatever archaic application you have in mind. I remember paying $500 for the same thing in a handheld, and the platform sucked then. Good luck loading even 1 webpage with 64MB and MSIE 3's crack baby offspring.
Wow.. They still make these things and expect intelligent people to buy them?
Saw this on another email list I'm on. Windows CE? Really?
Someone must have dug up some old stock in a storage unit somewhere and decided to dump it on the market to pay the storage bill. This isn't even enough to run Ubuntu on.
Now - price them at $25 each including shipping and I might be in on a couple to use for my applications that have to run DOS.
These stupid things are all over Craigslist too. Definitely trying to take advantage of morons who think "Ooo! Netbook! I've heard that word before!" and have no idea what specs to look for.
Keyboard for some teenie tiny fangers. Screen for some very young eyes. Priced accordingly.
Aren't all netbooks widescreen?
There is a Lenovo S10 Refur now onsale at Lenovo site for $176 after coupon "SAVE20". That S10 netbook is 1000 time brillian than this toybook.
Unfortunately, there are people buying these things cause they don't know no better
Good idea #2, as long as you can find an ARM build of DOS, and whatever archaic application you have in mind. I remember paying $500 for the same thing in a handheld, and the platform sucked then. Good luck loading even 1 webpage with 64MB and MSIE 3's crack baby offspring.
I saw on on the clearance shelf at a truck stop for $30. Played with it for a while, not even worth that much.
Good call on the coupon #6, you're right, this is way overpriced for the useless heap of junk it is.
what in the world is this gizmo?
Top brand in electronics is Visual Land. I will not buy anything else, except Coby which is #2.
My Sharp Wizard is just as powerful as this and much smaller.