I started a thread about this over in the "Which One Do I Buy" reader forum, but upon searching the site and finding no other mentions of the CherryPal Africa, and after I researched the CherryPal further on my own enough to write a TeleRead article, I thought I would post about it over here. Because a $99 retail netbook is news no matter how you look at it, and you can read e-books on it too.
And I find their manufacturing model really interesting. Instead of standardizing on a single design,
CherryPal buys odd lots of whatever parts it can get least expensively, puts together the best netbook they can out of that, and calls it the Africa. They guarantee a minimum level of performance on their website, but depending on what parts they have available you might get more.
It's like what home-builders do to craft their own beige boxes, but on a much larger scale. I think that's pretty neat.