Around two years back, there were reports emerging from China which stated that laptops as cheap as £50 would be out in the market pretty soon. It has taken over two years to witness a new laptop, a tiny laptop or a netbook at £50 from the very same country.

Hong Kong based Jointech recently launched its J-PRO mini laptop JL7100. It features a 400MHz CPU, 7-inch TFT screen and 1GB SD storage space. It has 3 USB ports, Ethernet port and a VGA connector. The weight of this netbook is barely 800 grams along with the battery. Talking about batteries, this one can run your system for up to 4 hours.

Unlike other laptops, it runs on Windows CE and not XP. The netbook can run basic office applications such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint and IE among other Microsoft certified programs.

Going by the looks, this netbook is as unattractive and ancient as it can get. People these days have begin to go for looks along with the performance. Maybe, Jointech should have spent more effort in redesigning the world’s cheapest laptop.

However, there are other costlier variants of this laptop that sports Wi-Fi capability and the top end that can run XP.

These models surely sound cheap going by economies but in terms of practicality, I am not sure how useful they can really be. Most of our cellphones these days are capable of doing the same functions at similar speeds and carry better memories. The World’s Cheapest Laptop may be out just for the record.