Cherrypal Africa $99 7-inch LCD Netbook: The Heart of 2010's Hardware Hacking Projects?

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Remember the very first Asus Eee PC netbook? It had a 7-inch LCD display and used a custom Linux distro for its operating system. It was a bit underpowered but managed to start a revolution anyway.

It looks like Cherrypal took its cue for Asus and brought back the first generation hardware design at a much lower price point…

Cherrypal Launches World’s First $99 Laptop

The Cherrypal Africa has a 7-inch LCD display (800×400 pixels), a 400MHz processor, 256MB (that’s “megabytes”) RAM, 2GB flash storage (you read right, 2GB, not 20, not 200), two SD card slots, and WiFi.

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