$99 CHERRYPAL AFRICA NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

$99 Cherrypal Africa is now available for purchase. This device isn’t designed to be a speed demon. Its purpose is to help people in poor and developing countries to connect to the internet. The netbook can run Windows CE or Linux.

When compared with other netbooks in the market, the Cherrypal Africa is severely underpowered. It has a 400MHz processor and 256GB RAM. The storage option is a 2GB flash memory. The machine supports Wi-Fi b/g for internet connectivity. There is one USB 2.0 port and two USB 1.1 ports. The lithium battery is expected to provide up to four-hours of runtime.

Cherrypal claims that Africa is very green. The netbook as fewer parts than other netbooks and consumes very little power.

Cherrypal Africa is now available for purchase worldwide from the Cherrypal website. There have been some previous attempts to produce a laptop that can be sold for under $100. The One Laptop per Child project headed by Nicholas Negroponte attempted this in 2006. They unfortunately weren’t very successful in their efforts and ended up selling the device for $199 instead.

CHERRYPAL AFRICA NETBOOK AVAILABLE FOR $99

CherryPal has introduced a new netbook that is selling for as low as $99. Called Africa, it is a severely underpowered netbook. But at this price point you will definitely want to check it out.

The CherryPal Africa has a 7 inch display. It is powered by a 400MHz processor with 256MB of RAM and a 2GB of flash storage. The machine will run either Linux or Windows CE. The battery life is expected to be around 4 hours. Of course, the specifications are reminiscent of a cell phone and not a netbook. But isn’t CherryPal Africa worth buying? Well, it is. With its keyboard, WiFi and a web browser, the machine provides an extremely affordable means of accessing the internet. But be aware of its limitations before you order one.

CHERRYPAL BING - CLOUD BASED MINI LAPTOP

CherryPal launched its new netbook at the Colarado's Sundance Film Festival of all places. May be it couldn't make it to the CES or wanted some different setting, who knows, but CherryPal which is well known for its Cloud based nettop has decided to venture into the netbook market with its Bing Netbook which is also Cloud based. CherryPal claims that the Bing is the fastest, most affordable and the least power consuming Intel Atom N270 based netbook on the market.

The CherryPal Bing packs 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270, 1GB of RAM, 160GB of Hard Disk storage capacity, WiFi 802.11b/g connectivity, 3 USB ports, and SD/MMC/MS card slot. It has a 10.2-inch TFT display with 1024 x 600 pixels, widescreen and a 1.3 Megapixel Webcam. The CherryPal Bing runs on the company's exclusive GreenMaraschino Linux Operating System with OpenOffice, Firefox, media software and instant messaging systems like AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Google and Skype. The Bing netbook can also support other Windows OS. Though CherryPal claims a battery life of 5 hours, details on the battery itself is unavailable and it weighs 3lbs.

Although the pricing of the Bing is still unknown, CherryPal has announced a limited time offer of 2 for 1. Yes, now you can pick the Bing along with a CherryPal C114 nettop for a combo price of just $399. The Bing is expected to be shipped in March 2009 while the C114 is available now. The nettop alone is normally priced at $250 and this combo offer is definitely worth watching out for. The CherryPal C114 uses 400MHz Freescale MIPS based processor running a custom version of Xubuntu Linux. Though the C114 does not support Windows, it is compact and performs well with cloud based applications like Zoho Office or Google Docs. To top it all, the CherryPal official site says that, “Coming soon is yet another laptop/netbook, based on a different processor architecture that will provide even more power savings”. Definitely something we can all look forward to.