$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.

AMAZON OFFERS GIFT CERTIFICATES WITH THE PURCHASE OF ASUS NOTEBOOKS

In an older post we mentioned that Amazon plans to offer customers a $75 gift certificate when they buy an Asus UL20A thin and light notebook through their online store. Well, Amazon has made the promotion page live, and there are more laptops on offer.

Besides the UL20A, the offer is available with two other models as well. Customers who buy the Asus UL50A and Asus UL80A through Amazon will get a $100 gift certificate. These notebooks are larger and pricier than the 12.1 inch UL20A.

The offer doesn’t knock $75 or $100 off the price. Actually, what you are getting is a gift certificate with which you will be able to buy a product of your choice from the Amazon store. And Amazon sells pretty much everything so this isn’t much different from getting a real discount.

LENOVO S9 AVAILABLE FOR US PURCHASE NOW

If you've been waiting out the netbook storm for the Lenova S9 (fat chance) than your wait is over. Those who would like to purchase the awesome 8.9 inch Ideapad can do so today at either Best Buy ($359.46) or Geeks ($344.99). The specs included are 4GB SSD, 512MB DDR2 RAM, 1.6GHz Atom Processor, 1024x600 resolution along with the usual array of ports and peripherals.

SHOULD I PURCHASE A NEW LAPTOP OR REPLACE THE BROKEN SCREEN

In today’s busy world we are rushed daylight to dark. In all the hustle and bustle it is very easy to drop ones laptop, breaking the screen. If this happens there will be a serious decision which will need to be made, replace the screen or purchase a new laptop.

A few things to take into consideration are the age of your laptop and whether the warranty is expired. As an example the Dell 9300 costs about $1800.00 dollars fully loaded and to replace just the screen before installation is about $600.00 dollars. It will cost between 2 and 3 hundred to have the new screen put on the laptop, so one would be spending close to $1000.00 dollars just to keep their old computer.

It is very important to do your research before making a final decision on which option to choose. Search the internet as well as browsing through the retail stores to get the best price.

At the rate technology changes it would be more feasible to buy a new laptop than to stick with one that will soon be out-of-date. Of course there is nothing wrong with keeping and repairing your current note book if you feel it is a great asset and you are not ready to change to a new laptop.