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This JL700 laptop is from some unknown Hong Kong company, but it does prove that $100 ARM based laptops are coming.

But this is certainly the type of laptop that is the laptop of the future.

Archos could make this using their nearly unaltered DaVinci platform and simply cramming it into a laptop form factor with a keyboard and trackpad mouse and a normal cheaer non-touch LCD. Archos could sell it below $200 and try to provide Google Android on it as an open platform, while they develop Google Android for the rest of the Archos line of products.

ARM based laptops cost less then half the cost of X86 based laptops, they consume less then half the power, take up less then half the size and weight.

I am sure we are going to see ARM based laptops very soon based on all kinds of ARM chips be it Texas Instruments DaVinci, Marvell Scale, Samsung, Qualcomm, Nvidia and others. Those are all going to be half or a third of the cost of any X86 based laptop, they are going to consume lower then half the battery power, they are going to fit in half the size and weight, they are going to be much faster at booting up and at doing basic tasks compared to X86.

More about this $100 ARM based laptop at:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/27/keepin-it-real-fake-part-cxxvi-jointechs-99-jl7100-rips-eee/

http://www.jointech.com.hk/jl7100.html

Of course, this means the end for Intel, Microsoft and potentially the end of several large PC and laptop makers such as Dell, HP, Apple, Fujitsu, Asus, Acer, MSI, Foxconn and others, all of which see no profit in selling laptops at $99: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/technology/21pc.html