$100 PCs YOU CAN ORDER ANY DAY -- Including Platform for APPLE TABLET CLONE

APPLE Tablet CLONE, SPECIAL NOTE:

Yesterday Apple introduced its coyily delayed tablet computer / reader, which they call the "iPad" and hope to sell for $500 (!). Lots of luck, Steve Jobs, because there already is a cheap Chinese version of this in the works (tablet photo), from a company that sells mini-laptops / notebooks for $66 to $80, depending on quantity, (laptop photo). The supercheap computer, which you can buy below, is based on Anyka's AK7802 processor, which is ARM based.

The King of Cheap, Sungworld, which offers the above, will also offer an Apple Tablet clone at a huge discount over the grossly inflated price Apple is advertising. No small computer should cost more than about $100, including anything from Apple.

PHOTO (laptop, above): $66 (quantity price) Mini-laptop from Sungworld. Click for more. The Chinese can have one. You can't. Ask yourself why.
If you want a sample of the above, quantity of one, Item E70002-5, it will be $80 plus shipping from China. The contact at Sungworld is Daniel Zhang, at direct line 86-755-89580577 , extension 8577.
FAX: 0755-89580501 URL: www.sungworld.com
E-mail: yw03@sungworld.com or daniel_dan2008@hotmail.com

If you want to distribute this, you can sell it for a lot less than $100. Quantity prices are: $73 in quantities of 500, $71 for 1000, $69 for 2000, and $66 for 3000. Larger quantities are negotiable.

And consider the following, which you can have right now, any day. Only extra cost is the usual, the shipping from US / Canada location to you (except for the Lightinthebox, see below).


Name / Price / Op System / CPU: Speed, make, CPU # (architecture, i.e., x86, ARM, MIPS, etc.)

(Low-cost shipping from US or Canada.)

Merimobiles "No Name" / $99.99 / 7-inch / Windows CE / CPU: 533-MHz VIA, VT8500 (ARM) / WiFi, Yes
Order at Every Day Low Price: http://www.merimobiles.com/Cheapest_7_inch_Mini_Notebook_Laptop_WIFI_Windows_p/meri0190.htm Telephone 1-800-204-0883

Airlife / $119.99 / 7-inch / Windows CE / CPU: 533-MHz VIA, VT8500 (ARM) / WiFi, Yes
Order at Every Day Low Price: http://www.merimobiles.com/Airlife_7_inch_Notebook_Laptop_WIFI_Windows_CE_6_0_p/meri0189.htm Telephone 1-800-204-0883

LightintheBox "No Name" / $99.99 / 7-inch / Windows CE / CPU: 300-MHz ANYKA, AK7802 (ARM) / WiFi, Yes
Order at Every Day Low Price: http://www.lightinthebox.com/index.php?main_page=shopping_cart&products_name=Mini-Netbook---7-TFT-ANKY-7802-300MHZ-256MB-DDR-2G-Storage---Laptop--SMQ4097-
Shipping $27.01, sales@lightinthebox.com

Inner Circle (phone with keyboard) / $94.99 / 2.2-inch / Windows CE / CPU: Unknown / WiFi, No
Order at Every Day Low Price: http://www.merimobiles.com/S73_Keyboard_dual_sim_TV_phone_p/meri0091.htm Telephone 1-800-204-0883

Cherrypal Africa / $99 / 7-inch / Linux / CPU: 400-MHz Ingenic, unknown number (MIPS) / WiFi, Yes
Order at Every Day Low Price: http://www.cherrypal.com/openstore/product_info.php?products_id=9&osCsid=c3e9349a07c665d1b83674256ddd88a8 Telephone: (650) 319-8300

ACER CHIEF STAN SHIH: China Will Rule -- With Cheap Computers

An article here -- http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1587595/acer-us-pcs -- quotes the founder of Acer (about the only netbook maker that has kept the faith, kind of) as saying cheap Asian brands will drive the US brands out of business.

I already knew that, and this blog points the way. I don't think Mr. Shih will be pleased, however, by the way forward. His prices are about 5 to 10 times where the basic price point of mini laptops will end up.

Anyway, the article by Nick Farrell is worth clicking on (above). One thing that gentleman apparently doesn't get yet is that even Apple will be caught up in the price crunch. For Apple knockoffs, see the Shanzai.com site.

At some point, the Chinese as a nation will decide officially to get off the US-is-world-beater bandwagon and instead to upset the applecart by competing per force, including ignoring some US intellectual-property legalities. They are doing it unofficially already. "Shanzai" stands for "pirate."

You Can Now Buy a $100 PC (A Blister in the Side of Microsoft-Intel)

Up front: I am not recommending (yet) the Cherrypal you have been hearing about. That might even be vaporware for now. But there finally is a real alternative, above, and you can get it by mail, from Canada, every-day low price, brand new, only need to buy one, just $99 ... (stay tuned).



The $100 PC has long been talked about but has been a long time coming. I toldja about it 5 years ago! It almost obviates the objective of this blog, which is:

Revolutionizing the Computer Industry By Provoking a PC Price War!

HOW TO BUY:

Click here. ................. Don't have to ship from China. It's close by in Canada. And it is $99 all the time. Something everyone can use. (If you think you are a techie, you can just play with it. For everyone else, the normal ones, it has Microsoft programs for just about every common application.) Easy to use and very useful. Note: The same deal is available for the same price in China, but that costs about $45 more just for shipping. Canada shipping cost to the US is MUCH less -- about the same cost as within the US, just a few dollars. The company is Merimobiles.com , a company long known to be dependable. CLICK HERE, and there's pages and pages of cool stuff.

And it is almost a secret. Almost. You can thank the Chinese for making the $100 PCs (manufacturing cost is more like $50 for a 7-inch low power mini-laptop) possible. You can blame Microsoft, Intel -- and just about everyone else in the PC industry, including magazines, PC reporters, market analysts, and websites like Cnet.

Finally, you can order a PC for under $100 -- any day, no contracts or strings attached, brand-new, not refurbished, no shipping charges from Asia, no minimum quantity, or any other catch -- and now you know how. If you want one, you can have it in hand in a few days.

MICROSOFT, INTEL, ENGADGET, ARSTECHNICA, GEEKS.COM, ASUS, HP, BEST BUY, FRY'S, ETC., WANT THIS THING KEPT UNDER WRAPS

C'mon, you already know why.... How they did it it (kept netbook prices high) is that Microsoft resurrected its old, dead XP operating system and practically gave it away to keep control of the smallest computers after the Asus Eee came out in late 2007. Their partner in crime, Intel, actually named the genre they were taking over, called it the "netbook" and started making cut-rate Atom chips for "netbooks. Microsoft and Intel dictated to their PC-maker licensees sizes of memory and screen that would guarantee netbooks" would get larger and more expensive. Asus and One Laptop Per Child caved in, and their promises of a $100 PC failed, derailed by US corporate interests at the expense of your interests.

I even discontinued this blog for a time, put it in limbo and went on a hiatus. Nothing new to report after the World's Cheapest Laptop, the $169 Alpha-400, was discontinued by Sungworld and Geeks.com. Well, the concept is back, for way less than $200, as I always knew it would be, and so are we.

THE GOAL: PCs SOLD ON BLISTER-PACK CARDS (Seem strange?)

The accompanying photo gives you PART of the picture. What is so special about that picture?

Think of it this way: Where do you get the cheapest consumer products? Forget about performance for a moment and forget your ego about being a techie or geek. You don't need a 19-inch laptop, 5 billion transistors, and an OS that takes all day to turn on or off. No one needs that for most computer work.

As to what is so special here, where do you get calculators for $1 or $2, or even a *graphing* calculator for less than $15? (Sorry, Texas Instruments.) Where do you get a radio for a buck? Where do you get everything for a dollar or 99 cents or less? And how are these things packaged?

DOLLAR STORES SELL GRAPHING CALCULATORS FOR $15 ON BLISTER-BACK CARDS HANGING ON A PEGBOARD.

The first scientific calculator -- never mind the first graphing one -- revolutionized electrical engineering and other scientific professions at a cost of over $700 apiece in the early 1970s. It put the slide rule in the museum with the buggy whips. Grizzled old engineers grouped around the first colleague to get one, and drooled, at first. Now they are old hat you can get them for about $3 or $4 (Balzic brand-name) at:

Drug stores
Hardware stores
Dollar stores
Discount stores

THEY ARE PACKAGED ON BLISTER-PACK CARDS, and the same thing will happen to PCs.

Now of course an engineer will have to spend close to $100 or more for a professional graphing calculator, and TI still is making those.

Same thing will happen with computers. The masses will buy supercheap PCs, for perhaps $20-$50, destroying 100s of companies and 100s of thousands of jobs in designing, marketing, retailing, advertising, and reporting on $500-$5000 PCs -- and these expensive PCs will become the niche market. They won't disappear, of course.

THAT'S WHAT IS SO GREAT ABOUT BLISTER-PACK COMPUTERS

They won't eliminate all other computers for consumers, let alone professional users. However, when you actually see one like that in the photo to the right, you will know the revolution has begun. The blister-pack PC hanging on a pegboard at the dollar store won't be out this year, but you CAN get a mini-laptop for $100 any day of the year, everyday low price like Walmart (just follow the link above). We are on our way. Even Apple is having to intro cut-rate notebooks.

Clayton Hallmark

3 Notebooks for Less Than $150 Here

They are at the following address:
http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=NBB

Asus Eee PC 4G 701 Celeron M 900MHz 512MB 4GB SSD 7" Netbook Linux (White)
4GB SSD 7" Netbook Linux (White)
Part # EEEPC4G-701-WHT-R
Refurbished
Almost Gone
$144.95

Asus Eee PC 900 Celeron M 900MHz 512MB 4GB SSD 8.9" Netbook Linux (Black)
4GB SSD 8.9" Netbook Linux (Black)
Part # EEEPC900-BK072-R
Refurbished
Almost Gone
$149.95

Asus Eee PC 900 Celeron M 900MHz 512MB 4GB SSD 8.9" Netbook Linux (White)
4GB SSD 8.9" Netbook Linux (White)
Part # EEEPC900-W073-R
Refurbished
Almost Gone
$149.95

Where to Get the Alpha 400 for $169.99

The Alpha 400 has sold out again at Geeks.com, but we can always order the Alpha 400 directly from its source, BestLink. No need too wait on Geeks.
http://www.bestlinkeshop.com/index.php?p=1&more=pro_onsales&listing=0&s=bc193b41e15660c150d56274a20bfc6b&lang=en

You can order the Alpha 400 for $169.99 at the above address. This is most common price that Geeks.com has used anyway.

For a full description of the mini-laptop click on the link below.
http://www.bestlinkeshop.com/index.php?p=6&id=11?s=10462d69a9c7eec43853b3235022aeb9

STEVE BALLMER SHOWS MICROSOFT'S TRUE COLORS: "Raise the Price of Netbooks" Here's an open letter: "Fat chance, fat man!"

Open Letter to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corporation:

Dear Mr. Ballmer:

In a recent presentation to stock-market analysts at Microsoft headquarters, you admitted that Microsoft wants to raise the price of netbooks. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/07/31/microsoft_plans_to_use_windows_7_to_raise_netbook_prices.html

You are admitting what I have accused your partner in crime (Intel) of, numerous times in posts here: bait and switch. When Asus came out with its revolutionary Model EEE, which is to computing what the Model T is to cars, you used the monopoly power of Microsoft to drive Linux off the Asus mini-laptops and later almost completely off "netbooks" (a term established by Intel) by practically giving away a Windows product, XP, that you had discarded. Now Microsoft's profits are down 29 percent for the last three months, based on cheaper XP dragging down Windows revenue http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2009526346_webmicrosoft23.html ; and you hope to "upgrade" everyone with Windows 7, which means extracting much more money from home and enterprise users, especially, those who use small, cheap computers.

You have said you hope to use Windows 7 to bring up the price of netbooks. Actually, that would be the tail wagging the dog: Netbooks are bigger than Microsoft, and your latest OS introduction will be a flop, just like Vista.

I have news for you: The basic law of microelectronics is not the well known Moore's Law (named after the cofounder of your partner in Wintel, for those who still don't know), which says maximum transistors on a CPU will double regularly. The basic law of microelectronics is not Moore's Law and it's not "More is better," meaning use the more complex chips for more performance (speed) and "featurism" -- 1001 features that almost no one needs on an operating system or application program and that just slow down the computer and get in the way of the user.

The Basic Law of Microelectronics Is ...

It is Van der Rohe's Law (not Moore's): "Less is more." I wrote one of the early books with "microelectronics" in the title, and I have been interested in this since long before the PC came out.

Electronic components like microprocessors get smaller because people want cheaper and more portable end products. At first it was radios, TVs, tape players, and other consumer electronics. Of course it's the same with computers -- of course.

People can find 15-inch laptops for $300 in the Sunday advertising supplements, and any day of the week in Walmart or electronics stores. These cheap laptops use your operating systems. Do you think you are going to get people who have been exposed to these to go back to notebooks or laptops selling for 3-10 times as much just because you are introducing a new Windows 7 OS with new bells and whistles and eye-candy?

Mr. Ballmer, with all *due* respect, you are not going to be able to turn back the clock. You have baited people with $35 XP, but you won't be able to switch them to Windows 7 on computers costing $500, $1000, or multiples thereof. Maybe you were foolish for staying in the cheap-computer fray as long as you did. You have let the horses out of the barn.

Less is more. You and all in the computing game will soon see. I eagerly await the introduction of Windows 7 on Times Square in New York and seeing it on the famous electronic billboard. I eagerly await crowds of yahoos standing in the cold outside the doors of the Best Buy in Brooklyn (Ohio) at one in the morning (just as they did for Vista) to get the first copies of Windows 7. I will be watching on my $100+ mini-laptop from Geeks.com.

Yours truly,

Clayton L. Hallmark

Sold Out Already

The near-$100 computer deal at Geeks.com has sold out again, much sooner than I expected, less than a day after I posted it.

This shows the revolutionary demand at a level near $100, even for a 7-inch computer.

When will someone break that barrier on a more or less permanent basis? This year or next?

The results will be amazing, as most people don't know you can get a brand-new computer anywhere near that cheap.