Larry Dignan at ZDnet ordered the $150 Medison laptop that has bloggers buzzing today. We assume this laptop is a scam, and don’t have $150 to throw away. However, we’ll definitely be jumping on the bandwagon if this turns out to be legit. But don’t count on it — even a laptop with these modest specs would probably have a manufacturing cost of more than $150.

Specs: 14 inch LCD, Intel Celeron 1.5 GHz chip, 40 GB hard drive, 256 MB of memory, Linux OS

Here’s another optimist who ordered one.