Cherrypal Announces the World’s First $99 Laptop, Redesign of Bing, Open Store

The $99 Cherrypal Africa features a 7" screen, Internet browsing capabilities and much, much more. Along with this new product launch, Cherrypal is also announcing the redesign of the 13.3" widescreen Bing laptop. Priced at only $389 (including Windows XP), the Bing features 1.6 GHz operation, 1 GB DDRII memory, 160 GB HDD, 1.3 MP integrated web camera and (3) USB ports.

The Cherrypal Bing and Cherrypal Africa can both be purchased through the revolutionary Cherrypal.com ’Open Store’, which features products designed by several different manufacturers. All non-Cherrypal products featured in the Open Store are priced at least 30 percent less than the manufacturer’s suggested retail price, but carry Cherrypal’s unconditional 30-day money back guarantee

Cherrypal Donates Laptops, Creates Learning Center for Children in Ghana

Cherrypal, the company that brought to market the world’s "greenest" laptop computer, has teamed up with The Paajaf Foundation to build a learning center for children in Accra, Ghana. Without access to the learning center, it is unlikely that children in the area would have access to the Internet.

Our Green Maraschino Open Source Initiative has Soft Launched!

We have quietly launched our Green Maraschino open source initiative. The objective of Green Maraschino is to provide an open platform for computing using the least amount of power possible, from silicon hardware to super cloud architecture.

Developers, users and all other interested parties are encouraged to rise up to the challenge with us and participate in making Green Maraschino the most effective and most environmentally friendly computers on the market. We currently have 10 projects that we’re working on, and we’d love your help

Since launching CherryPalTMon July 21, 2008, we have received an overwhelming response from the media. We’ve taken more than 10,000 calls and emails from media outlets, users, distributors, resellers and potential partners from all over the world. Some of the most popular news outlets on earth have dedicated coverage to us, including:
  • The New York Times
  • PCWorld
  • Gizmodo
  • The Tech Herald
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • VentureBeat
  • Treehugger
  • Market Watch
  • Engadget
  • Linux Journal
  • Many, many more!

This kind of interest helps us to know that we’re on the right track - the demand is there, and we’re doing our absolute best to meet it. We will publish more details regarding CherryPal’s Green Maraschino Cloud architecture toward the end of this quarter, so be sure to check back in.

If you are a member of the media and would like a review sample of our C114 "nettop" desk computer or our Bing netbook, please feel free to shoot us an email asking for one. We’ll be sending out a reserved number of samples at the end of March.

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