Surely if Google designs a perfect one and launches manufacturing of 10 million units, they can make them at $60 a piece and sell them on google.com/laptop for less than $100 also subsidized further by Google's online ads. The biggest cost of the laptop is the screen, using Pixel Qi the battery life can be upwards more than 20 hours even with a small cheap Laptop battery.

Check my other video with the founder of Epic Games: http://armdevices.net/2010/01/25/tim-sweeney-talks-about-unreal-engine-on-arm-powered-devices/ The full Unreal Engine and Quake3 type of OpenGL ES games and N64 and Dreamcast emulators can run on those ARM Powered Laptops.

Exactly, the telecom companies are dictating cell phone prices. If it weren't for those telecom companies, we would be able to buy unlocked Nexus Ones for less than $200 at the moment. Nexus One has faster ARM Cortex A8 processor, AMOLED screen, built-in HSDPA, better battery, 4x more RAM memory, kind of justifies why a Nexus One costs $150 to manufacture and this 7" laptop probably costs less than $80 to mass manufacture.

If you can read the full Slashdot homepage on 480x320 3.5" iphone screen, then surely you could read it too zoomed on a 800x480 7" screen (4x the size and 2.5x the resolution compared to the iphone). Though surely a 8.9" 1024x600 resolution screen would be nicer and would fit in the same form factor and maybe only add $20 to the cost of this device.

Yeah, logically it should be rather easy to put scroll bars, use up/down buttons for quick scrolling, remove touchscreen zoom options, move applications menu to the bottom left corner (like the Windows Start menu), and provide a Google Marketplace which filters apps that are best suited for laptop form factors. Optimaly, the full Chrome browser should launch within Android for Laptop form factors. I expect this is something Google will release soon.

This specific model doesn't have a built-in HDTV output, but my guess is that adding a HDMI output connector might not have to increase cost by more than $5.

I've seen them at Buy.com (2), at Amazon.com, at Kmart.com and plenty other places for even cheaper.

The point of this video is to show that Android and the much faster Android web browser can make all these cheap laptops much more usable when it comes to browsing the web. The Android browser is 100x better than the one in Windows CE or the previous Mozilla-based one they would integrate in those $100 Laptops. More usable means more people will want to buy it, which means even cheaper prices.

Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android (8GB) $249 Archos 5 Internet Media Tablet (250GB) (the one for using the new Dev firmware) $199 Nokia N900 $649 - Has 2x smaller screen than Archos, much less storage, no HD 720p video decoding, no video recording

The Archos 5 Internet Media Tablet for one has a 3-4 times faster ARM Cortex A8 processor, basically like the processor in the Nokia N900 which costs 700 dollars and has a tiny screen. Archos has always been able to playback all the video codecs at least up to DVD resolution. The Archos 5 Internet Media Tablet now ships with 250GB hard drive for $199 or the 7" version for $209, that's basically the price of a 8GB ipod touch. Archos records TV using DVR connectors for input and output of composite, s-video, component and even with a HDMI output in 720p. Archos has USB 2.0 host for keyboards, mice and external hard drives.

Comon, it makes sense for them to void the warranty and disable DRM when officially allowing jailbreak. Third party hackers with bad code could make software that actually could brick or otherwise permanently harm the hardware. Archos should not be responsible for more than how consumers use their official firmware.

With time, the open development could though provide very stable ways to run Android, Maemo Mer, Ubuntu and more. At some point it would be considered safe to install those third party installs if distributed in a way people can trust and that many people are using it without reported problems.

Demanding that Archos not void the warranty on installing this, would be like demanding that Nintendo not void the warranty when people install a modchip on their Wii, or that Apple not void the warranty when hackers brick the iphone through some bad code in jailbreak mode.

Embedded platforms are fragile, for example software should not demand from the ARM processor to constantly burst at full 800mhz mode, this would heat it up too much and could harm the hardware. The 800mhz of the processor is only supposed to be used in burst mode when launching something heavy but it should not be constantly used to convert files or something else like that for a long time. Archos carefully uses the DSP accelerator when encoding videos, but third party developers might not be careful enough about that. Also, many consumers bought this Tablet over a year ago, or may buy it used on Ebay or something. At that point the warranty doesn't really matter anyway.