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bgraham

join:2001-03-15
Smithtown, NY
·Verizon FIOS

Is It Worth it? I don't Think So

I was just thinking of getting an Acer netbook for $350. I really like the battery life (6 hours), size and mainly want to upload pictures from my camera to the netbook for safekeeping whilst on vacation.

Unless you have a specific need who wants to subsidize a $350 product to the tune of $60 a month for a stinking 5 gig. I could not find a contract term listed at ATT, but I guess $60 plus tax and charges is easily $70 a month x 12 = $840 a year.


ninjatutle
Premium

join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA
Tax is under $2. But we should not talk about this tax any further. If the govt knew how low the percetage is, they would want more I had a similar tax amount when I was at Sprint.


sousademiami

join:2003-02-04
Hialeah, FL
·Comcast
·AT&T Southeast

reply to bgraham
It's not so much the 5 gigs a month that irks me, it's the overages, if the overages were on the order of $10 or even $15 per gigabyte at least the pricing would make sense...but at OVER $500/GB (domestic, we don't even want to start with international rates) it's robbery.
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Ark

join:2002-06-08
Hudsonville, MI
·AT&T Midwest

reply to bgraham
»www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp···t0500000

Seems like they are down to $239 at Best Buy now. And that is with a SSD, 1GB RAM, and the WinXP tax. Just pay the full price and don't put up with silly contracts for tiny internet usage.
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