Cheap new-ish laptops for under 200$?

I just saw an article about a madison celebrity laptop and yeah it seems like a scam so i was wondering if there are any laptops out there, that aren't a scam and aren't OLPC or the intel one that are either exactly 200$ or under 200$?

Answers:
Not likely we will see an under $200 from the major laptop vendors any time soon ... HP, Dell, Toshiba, Acer or Lenovo (IBM). We sell refurbished laptops for $200 that are useful for browsing the web, e-mail and word processing. If you look at the cost of the new Microsoft Visto OS it by itself is over $100, which does not leave much room for the hardware and a warranty from the manufacturer. Over the last 3-4 years starting prices for laptops have remained over $500.
Save your money and go for a laptop that you know is not a scam. 200 sounds too low for any new laptop. Add together a piece of crap mobo, hdd, and processor, and monitor, and that has to be around 125 to 150 without anything extra like cd drive or keyboard or anything. Dont buy it.

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