Here's the real $100 laptop. At first look I thought it was a rather impressive hardware hack, but it turns out to be the rare Xentex Dual Screen Laptop, available to buy (in a slightly beaten up state) on eBay.
And it has good reason to be rare. If you thought that the tablet PC was a niche product, the Xentex makes it look positively iPod-like. The notebook has one unique feature. It folds up twice, which is just as well as when fully splayed the monster-machine is almost as wide as two regular notebooks, at 19.5" across. Those two 13.3" screens actually move independently, so you can flip one and share your display, much like sharing a set of earbuds.
If you are thinking about buying this, check the description carefully. There's not much, aside from the floppy drive (!) which still works. The navigational "nipple" is missing, hooking up a hard drive will require a custom cable and the plastic latches which secure the screens are broken. Despite all that, we kind of like the Xenex, precisely because it is so quirky. In fact. the design is so unlikely that we suspect that the hefty notebook's father was also its cousin.
Auction page [eBay via the Reg]
