MenQ E790 is the World’s Cheapest Laptop
Posted By Raseel Bhagat On November 17, 2009 @ 12:00 pm In Gadgets News | No Comments
The Menqgroup [1], a China-based company, is a maker of electronic equipment like GPS systems, mini-Laptops and mini-PCs among other things.
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MenQ EasyPC 790 [3] or the E790, is the latest offering from MenqGroup and is being touted as being the world’s cheapest laptop. At $89, their claim can hardly be challenged.
Running Samsung’s 400Mhz ARM9 processor and 128MB RAM, it is definitely capable of running Android [4]. Currently it has Windows CE 5.0 installed, which does not seem like such a good move from MenQ especially since Windows CE 6.0 has had better reviews.
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With 7 inches of screen size , 3 USB ports, a LAN interface and 802.11b/g supported Wireless LAN interface, this is a full fledged Netbook device.
If MenQ can manage to sell this device running a licensed version on Windows CE 5.0 for approximately $90 , can you imaging the cost if it were to run Android or Ubuntu [6]or Moblin [7]or any other open source distribution natively ?
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[1] Menqgroup: http://www.menqgroup.com/
[2] Image: http://cdn2.techie-buzz.com/images/posts/MenQCheapestLaptop/MenQ%20EasyPC%20790.gif
[3] EasyPC 790: http://www.menqgroup.com/products/pro/E790.asp
[4] Android: http://www.android.com
[5] Image: http://cdn2.techie-buzz.com/images/posts/MenQCheapestLaptop/e790_running_android.jpg
[6] Ubuntu : http://www.ubuntu.com
[7] Moblin : http://www.moblin.org
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