Hexus reports an expected price around £350 ($700 or 500€, give or take) so maybe "cheap" is not the word that comes to mind, but we are in the Ultra Mobile world now and this price is outstanding there.

"The svelte XS10 weighs in at under 950g and has much the same features as VIA's showing - a 7in (800x400) LCD screen, a low-wattage VIA C7-M processor, DVI-out, WiFi, a four-in-one card-reader, a 30GiB hard drive and Windows XP Home. The XS10 also carries an integrated webcam in its MobilityPLUS interchangeable module." 

Taking a look at the VIA's Nanobook behind this product, it's clear you can get much better performance from other laptops and at an even lower price. Just four words explain the difference: less than one kilo. Now go take a look at prices for this kind of notebooks and you will agree with me about this actually being a bargain.

When VIA announced it's plans for this market segment I was a little bit worried about Packard Bell not being able to meet the price point needed for success. If the mentioned price gets backed up by retailers, we have a winner!

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