Bestlink’s Alpha 400, a dirt cheap ultraportable
Wed, May 21, 2008
The trend of ever smaller gadgets and doodads doesn’t seem to have stopped, as yet another mini gadget has been launched recently, namely the Alpha 400 from Bestlink. Just make it as small as possible, go a bit back in time to 2007 2000 with the specs, sell it dirt cheap and you’ll bound to make a killing. Doesn’t matter if it’s still in one piece after one month of using, you’re selling it for a sack of old potatoes, the customers don’t care.
The Alpha 400 will apparently be priced from $250 (or $180 in volume), sport a 400MHz (!) Xburst CPU, 128MB of RAM, 1GB or 2GB of flash memory, a 7-inch 800 x 400 display, and will run Windows CE or some form of Linux.
The manufacturer says storage can be expanded via SD card or USB drives, and WiFi, CDMA, GPRS, and ADSL will all be available via external add-ons. Would any of you buy a piece of crap like this? No, seriously, I’d like to know a few reasons why.
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Tags: Alpha 400, ultraportable
May 21st, 2008 at 4:52 pm
The only reason why I would buy it is because of the small size and note taking ability. I’m a student and use a laptop for taking notes. While my current machine is fine, universities keep putting smaller desks in classrooms to cram in more money makers. Sure I could go back to pen and paper but its more of a pain to do that as I would have to carry multiple notebooks.