Meet the $229 dual core 15.6" Laptop

[Stereodude]

How is anyone making money on this thing? It seems like the cost of the sum of the parts must far outweigh the selling price.

 

[Bozo]

Maybe they were buried in the mud after the tsunomi in Japan? ;-)

 

[Adcadet]

or they glow, which I could see as a nice feature

 

[LiamC]

Backlit screen - cool. Actually, it would be backlit screen, keyboard, case, touchpad...

:twistd:

 

[Mercutio]

It's an Acer product. That should be the end of discussion.

 

[time]

In June 2011 eMachines released BIOS update version 1.09 for the netbook model eM350 which after flashing the BIOS caused the machines to permanently stop functioning

Classy.