When you are peddling an overpriced keyboardless netbook there is always the risk that someone will produce a knock off for much cheaper.

Well now it seems that someone has made an iPad knock-off in China for a fifth of the price of the orginal. The iPed is an Android-based copycat packaged like an Apple product. It will cost you just $105.

It does have a few problems.  It appears to be a lot slower and only has 16 gigs of space, and runs on 128mb of RAM.  It can't run anything Applish  and it only runs version 1.5 of Android. The iPed sports a 600-MHz RockChip processor and a screen resolution of only 800 by 480 pixels.

The iPad's 1-GHz Apple A4 processor powers the functionality displayed across its 1024-by-768-pixel screen, however it does have a 9.7-inch display is a bit bigger than the iPed's seven-inch screen. The iPed seems to only support Wireless B and Wireless G WiFi.

While it is not up to much it is still better value for money than the iPad.