Rumors say it may be a 400Mhz CPU from Analog Logic, ADSP-BF526C Low Power Blackfin Processor, probably decreased frequency for better battery life.

The specs are here:
http://www.analog.com/en/epProd/0,,ADSP-BF526C,00.html

...is AMD, obfuscated so they don't receive any blowback from the crowd who think that the OLPC XO (which contains an AMD CPU) shouldn't be competed with.

But my gut tells me it's just a no-name manufacturer.

N.

My $1500 Dell Latitude can only get around 11 - 12 fps in DX 10 very low Crysis 1.1 with Vista X64 Business.
Poor NVS 135m.

Within that budget (say $200) you can buy any one of a slew of single board computers that can run Linux. They're the staple of many an embedded product. You just need to add a display and some kind of keyboard and you've got your computer. ("WiFi? -- How much did you pay for your access point?")

The thing is, in the system I use a lot I can't easily get Flash for it below 1GByte. The Linux sits in about 100MBytes (It could be thinned out radically for the use I have for it but why bother?) That leaves 900MBytes doing nothing, waiting for suitable graphics code, a browser and some apps (plenty of room, and anyway).

BTW. Radio Shack are advertising 1GByte thumb drives for $9.99.

I wonder, due to the fact that they've chosen Debian, if the CPU is some sort of ARM basd chip?

What makes me think that is because it's cheap, low power and it would probably do the job for web browsing, e-mail and basic office tasks.

There even appears to be an arm port of OpenOffice.org (see here: http://porting.openoffice.org/)

Or I guess it's entirely possible to be running some sort of embedded AMD CPU, or after a bit more searching it's quite possible it could be the new Vortex86 system on a chip which according to the press release (here http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200711/1196462183.html) kind of matches the specs... 

Quote from site: 
"Tri-M Engineering’s new VSX104 is a rugged 300MHz CPU module featuring extended temp operation and soldered 128MB DDR2 RAM. The VSX104 features 4 COM, 2 USB2.0, and 1 10/100 ports."

Anyway, at £99 I'd be interested in picking one up for basic e-mail etc, or maybe for Tuxpaint for the kids.

Rob

And to think the cheapest Palm w/ builtin WiFi costs $300.

I'll bet the processor is the AMD Geode LX although the 300MHz throws me because that would make it the RedCloud version and not Castle. The Castle design was roughtly 500MHz. Surprised that AMD is selling RedCloud. It has some serious performance issues.