Another (very) affordable UMPC

Photo: Jointech. Rescaled GIF = Ugly.

Got a tip from my co-worker on a very lightweight and portable “clone” of the Asus EEE PC 701 from a Hong Kong based company named Jointech.

It’s called JL1700 and it looks quite alright if you disregard the fact that it is running Windows CE. And a plus goes to the wonderful choice of CPU, an ARM 9 (Samsung chipset) that makes me think of simpler days. Hehe

The Windows CE minus might be mitigated by just installing Debian or any Linux distribution that supports ARM processors.

It deals for 99$ which is extremely cheap, but as my fingers can’t even fit on a 901 this really would not have been a very suitable choice for me