World's Cheapest Laptops are:Merimobiles, ARM-Based "No Names" (100's of them),Cherrypal,Sungworld

Cheap Chinese brands are taking over from pricey netbooks. Already there are *hundreds* of brands based on ARM processors, and available in China and even on the streets of New York. Soon they will be on blister-pack cards at places like Walgreen's and the dollar stores. Here's where to get them -- ANY DAY -- for $100 plus US SHIPPING. Everything about cheap ARM laptops/notebooks/netbooks, Merimobiles, Cherrypal, Sungworld (Alpha 400), ANYKA (ARM CPU's)and the Hundreds of Brands Soon to Come.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Elonex ONE (Alpha-400 Clone) Available Free in Cellphone Package

The Carphone Warehouse, a cellphone retailer in the UK, offers a version of the Alpha 400 for free, bundled with cellphone service.

This news comes from Mobility Today, which says, "LG’s Chocolate has been bundled with Carphone’s Elonex Webbook for £30 per month, with unlimited texts and 700 minutes on T-Mobile."

Elonex "webbooks" (as Elonex calls them) are big sellers in the UK. They sold over 100,000 last year.

There is hope of the ALPHA-400 and similar machines going mainstream after all. Who cares if it's on a subsidized basis? And who even cares if it runs Windows XP? Seriously: The main thing is to get this mainstreaming going because a really cheap computer is the only way to break the Intel-Microsoft trust.

See article here.