Cheapest laptop in the world on sale in Dubai

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The Impulse NPX-9000 is the smallest and cheapest notebook on the market at present.

The self-proclaimed smallest and cheapest laptop in the world, Carapelli's Impulse NPX-9000 is now on sale in the Middle East.

Taiwanese hardware vendor Carapelli says that the Impulse NPX-9000 is both the smallest laptop in the world, and the cheapest, costing just $129 (AED 473) for bulk orders of 100 units or more.

In comparison, the cheapest commercially available small, cheap notebook the Asus EeePC 700 series costs anywhere from $200-400, while Intel's Classmate and the OLPC XO notebook, only available for governments and education,  costs between $250 and $400, and around $180 respectively.

With a 7 inch screen, the Impulse NPX-9000 matches the smallest Asus EeePC, and comes with a 400MHz processor, 128MB RAM and 1GB of flash storage, running a customized version of Linux.

A Windows XP version of the machine, which should cost under $200, is planned for the future.

Samer Batter, editor of Windows Arabic is among the first to test out the machine - you can read his verdict here.

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Posted by sohail teli, karachi, pakistan on Tuesday 19 August 2008 at 18:35 UAE time

Jointech is going to launch its product sometime in September I just want to know from where I could find the detail and from where I can purchase it from in UAE...

Impulse NPX 7000 enquiries
Posted by bunty, Dubai, UAE on Tuesday 12 August 2008 at 14:18 UAE time

If anybody has any questions or wants to clear doubts please feel free to contact at me, bunty.p@carapelli.net or Tel 971 4 3933138

Thx.
Bunty

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Posted by Mazher Iqbal, Hyderabad, India on Sunday 10 August 2008 at 04:56 UAE time

Please do not go for cheap laptop in fact in Hyderabad (India) HP is using marketing tactics with false promises of free Internet facility. It is nothing but sheer marketing campaign to make money.

Go for branded quality always.

Mazher

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Posted by hazel, Deira, Dubai on Saturday 9 August 2008 at 11:07 UAE time

How much if i will only buy 1 unit. And can I use that in the Philippines?

Is it also good for chatting & internet browsing?

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