Just when you thought manufacturers were giving up on 7-inch Windows tablets, along comes Chinese OEM Pipo with the new X8. It’s a tablet that you can’t take off your desk.

That’s one way to describe this odd little device, anyway. Pipo actually classifies it as a set-top box, but when you slap a touchscreen this big on a PC this small, it really does make it look like a non-portable tablet — or maybe even a really fancy bedside alarm clock. The Pipo X8 is powered by an Intel Atom Z3735F or Z3736F, and it has 2GB of RAM and 32 or 64GB of on-board storage. You won’t find a battery inside the X8 like you will some other smaller-screen, touch-enabled Windows desktops, but you will find plenty of USB ports for your peripherals, as well as an HDMI output and Ethernet.

Windows 8.1 with Bing comes standard, too, and that should help keep the price somewhere around the $100 mark. That’s not a bad deal for a plain-Jane Atom-powered Windows PC, let alone one that comes with a touchscreen display. Getting back to that fancy alarm clock thing, the X8 is actually cheaper than the Chumby was when it launched. Remember Chumby?

Even though it makes the Pipo X8 a bit of an oddball PC, it could come in handy from time to time. If the batteries in your cordless keyboard should die at an inopportune moment, you can pop up the on-screen keyboard as a stopgap. And if your TV kicks the bucket, well, at least you can still binge watch Netflix and play Cut the Rope on the X8’s built-in 1024 x 768 display.