Hey Charbax, whatever happened to that $95 Android pink notebook that you had? You never made a video of that or showed the hacked marketplace on it. At least not that I can find. Thats under $100

Yup I prefer keeping the same user experience and lowering the price. The hard drive plastic door could be interchangeable with another plastic thing that somehow would add a bump under the device, I don't know if that would make sense. Or else, just make it thick enough to accomodate a hard drive. Or else simply not build it to include a hard drive. The hard drive would be the most power consuming component if used.

Ohhh you want to push the price down far below the price of netbooks. I was fine with them being the same price as Netbooks with the SSD and the accelerometer and the touchscreen and all those goodies that a netbook doesn't have.
SATA drives are what, 9.5mm? Thats almost at the 1cm mark that you wanted right there. Would it make the device too think? 2 SD card slots would be great tho.
I like your ideas tho! If only we could get device manufacturers to make each of us our own ideal device that we are hoping for…

I'd like a $99 2GB ARM Chrome OS Smartbook with 2 empty SD card slots, or even with 2 SD card slots and one empty 2.5″ hard drive slot as well. That would just be an empty compartment to connect any SATA hard drive up to 2.5″ in size right there. The extra plastic door, empty space and SATA connector wouldn't cost more than $3 to add.

SD is plenty enough speed to store and stream video files off of. Even HD videos. SSD speeds is simply not needed for media files. For OS files yes, but not opening, storing, streaming of media files.

SD cards are great but isn't it always good to have some space on the device itself? Its like having built in 3G so you don't have to worry about a dongle.
Especially since SD cards aren't any cheaper than SSD's and don't provide the same speed.
How would an optional HDD slot work? Wouldn't sliding a HDD into the side of a netbook or smaller device take up too much space?

Media contents can be loaded from an SD card or optional hard drive slot.

The current builds of Chromium OS out there can run on 2GB flash drives.
But you wouldn't want to have the minimum size SSD so that you could put media or offline content on the device as well.
ARM processor will be cheaper than intel but then SSD and all the other high quality components that they want to add will make up for that. But even the Chromium build by Hexeh I have used boots in 5 seconds on an SSD so it'll be fast.

“It will be up to the manufacturers who do it”

300-400 dollars is the price of Intel based netbooks.

Chrome OS supports ARM Powered laptop designs, and those are not yet released but it's proven to be significantly cheaper than Intel.

I can't find the hardware requirements for Chrome OS, but i read that there must be a SSD, and >=16GB.

Eric Schmidt the Google-CEO: ““It will be up to the manufacturers who do it, but the price points you should think about are the current netbook pricings which are 300 dollar, 400 dollar price points”

http://www.netbookchoice.com/2010/04/20/google-…

Can't Chrome OS work on 4GB or 8GB?

How? ChromeOS want a >=16 GB SSD.