Coby Electronics are known for their cheap electronic stuff, and now they have decided to get in on the booming netbook market. What does this mean for the genre? Well cheap– REAL cheap netbooks from a company known for their discount MP3 players, DVD players, and other devices.
Starting in early 2009, Coby will be rolling out $99.95 netbooks to Rite Aid Pharmacies and Kroger grocery stores. They are calling their “PoqetMate-7″ 7-inch and “PoqetMate-9″ 9-inch models “midget PCs”, but they seem to fit the definition of a netbook pretty well — maybe even better than some of the larger ones available on the market. We don’t know exactly how powerful these netbooks will be, but at that price, lets not expect anything too great. What seems to be definite though is that a Chinese-sourced Longsoon CPU with Linux will fuel them.
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[...] Yesterday we and many other sites covering netbooks reported that Coby Electronics was on the verge of offering their own line of netbooks for a stunningly low $99.95. It almost sounded too good to be true, and according to this post at Ars Technica, it may well have been. [...]