 Ark
join:2002-06-08
Ada, MI
 ·Comcast
| reply to jp10558
Re: something for free...? $400+ is not an attractive price point. You could get a low-end 14" laptop for that.
I bought mine for $240 from Amazon with 1.6GHz Atom, 8GB SSD, 1GB RAM, and Windows XP Home, for $240, no tax, free shipping. That was about the most an ultra-portable 9" 2lb device should cost.
Maybe it's just a recent thing with the Windows XP Home Edition ULCPC program, but I think Acer can pay a lot less for ULCPC licenses than regular XP Home licenses, even though it is the same product. Microsoft just limits the computers OEMs can put that on, such as 1GB max ram and stuff. Maybe a few months ago these weren't available with Windows XP at $240 and the cheap ones did only have Linux. That seems to have changed if it was the case, since you can find plenty of sub-$300 netbooks with XP Home now. |
