If anybody’s seen a cheaper netbook than this, let me know. Pioneer computers is selling their new 10-inch E10 netbook for an RRP of $199. Holy crap that’s cheap!
Make no mistake, this thing isn’t exactly overwhelming in the specs department. It’s running a VIA-8505 processor, only has 128MB of RAM, comes with either 2GB or 4GB of flash memory and only supports 802.11b/g wireless (although it does have ethernet, an SD card slot and two USB slots).
According to the ordering page, it runs Windows CE (who knew that was still around?)
But if you want a truly basic, barebones laptop, this could well be the cheapest option out there.
norp
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 4:19 PMDo you really not know what windows CE is?
There were a bunch of smartphones that ran it before winmo took off, and it was the OS that ran on the dreamcast.
The attached photo looks like windows7 starter edition tho, not to mention that winCE is generally only found on ARM machines.
Nick Broughall
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 4:25 PMWell bugger me. that’s embarrassing. I’m just going to say that I sat through a 2 hour presentation on Office 2010 this morning and hope you forgive the brainsnap. :/
Josh
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 4:23 PMlooks like you can also run Android.
http://www.pioneercomputers.com.au/products/info.asp?c1=3&c2=12&id=3169
matt
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 4:33 PManyone have any idea what the hell a VIA-8505 processor is??
android sounds cool.
sets an interesting precedent for some real cheap tablets in the future
Lachlan Heywood
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 4:48 PMIt’s also worth noting that this particular VIA processor is only clocked at 533mhz. Thats not even half the speed of the Intel Atom N270.
Alex
Monday, July 5, 2010 at 4:01 AMTo be fair, its also half the price of a netbook.
Its also cheap enough that I, already owner of a notebook would consider it without thinking I’m doubling up on devices
Bj V
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 5:05 PMso it runs CE, but the picture is of Windows 7?
Jubbin Grewal
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 8:17 PMLol thats a deffinite fail there. Wrong pic.
Jayant
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 5:30 PMWindows CE was usually used as a thin client, so the windows 7 might be a remote desktop/thin client connection.
Richard
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 6:58 PMThe same spec with a 7″ screen can be had for half that price on ebay.
joey
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 7:23 PMlooks interesting, noticed on the product page it mentions optional 3G connectivity builtin along with android, but nothing on the build/order page emailed them asking bout it. At that price for some web surfing/email round the house or out and about/on the trian, could do well. Perhaps even go against the ipad? plus winCE6 has flash lite (better than nothing right)
Cam
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 8:05 PMThere’s a heap of similar “Pc’s” on Ebay. I wouldn’t touch the Win CE ones with a 10 foot pole though. It would be much more useful to have some flavour of linux on there, at least then you could get some kind of a modern browser and rudimentary flash/video/pdf support. With win CE you’re going to find it hard running anything made in the last 4 – 5 years.
Elisa Tammela
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 3:19 AMWindows 7 requires minimum of a gig of ram, so maybe someone in the advertising department stuffed up with their photoshopping…
poedgirl
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 12:02 PMThis has an ARM processor, not an x86 processor. Think of it as a smartphone with a 10 inch screen, oh, and it can’t make calls.
RhysM
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 3:57 PMHey folks, our Microsoft contract means every computer we sell that runs any sort of Windows OS has to have Windows 7 desktop in the picture. So just don’t concern yourselves about the desktop picture.
poedgirl
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 5:12 PMWow, that’s a pretty stupid policy by Microsoft. Especially when you’re running an embedded OS.
One thing people need to realise is that ARM processors are a lot more efficient than x86 processors, so this isn’t really that bad.