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- motang, on 11/01/2008, -1/+61Wait a minute so how much is this "$99" netbook going to cost me?
- bumcheekcity, on 11/01/2008, -0/+47"Cost $99" and "Cost $300" are clearly being used interchangably here.
If you bought a shirt for $1, on the condition that you bought a pair of trousers that you didn't really need at $10/month for 24 months, then the shirt wasn't really $1. - RoboRay, on 11/01/2008, -0/+25$1500
- dannyboy3020, on 11/01/2008, -2/+23Homer: "And how much is this free weekend going to cost me?"
Movementarian: "It's free, sir." - Paranoidmarvin, on 11/01/2008, -0/+11You can already get a netbook in the UK for free on a mobile broadband contract, so I won't be surprised if the above will soon be true in the US
- diggerman32, on 11/01/2008, -2/+10$500
- iashraf, on 11/01/2008, -0/+8you payed $800 for an EEE pc?
Really? - hulse2k, on 11/01/2008, -0/+8In the UK the netbooks and even laptops upto about £500 are free on these mobile broadband contracts. The catch is that you pay more for the broadband contract if you take it with the netbook (£25-£40per month and 2 year contract) rather than having mobile broadband on its own which is usually £10-£15 per month. These contracts are lucrative business for the retailers and phone companies in a world of financially tough times.
- arjie, on 11/01/2008, -0/+8Dude, HP's Mininote 2133 is over a kilogram in weight. An average phone is around 100gm (the Nokia E71 is a tenth the weight of the Mininote 2133)
The Mininote is 1136.025 cc, the E71 is 65cc.
The whole thing about a cellphone is that they're so damn portable man! I can whip mine out while I'm standing on tip-toe on a rush-hour train and call home to say I'll be late. Comparing it to a phone is ridiculous. - Aleman360, on 11/01/2008, -2/+9Cell phone sales crash? What?
- HonoredMule, on 11/01/2008, -0/+7The units go out of production, and the warehouse space is too precious to keep any overstock, which gets marked down and sold much earlier than that.
A product worth less than $100 taking up 3 cubic feet of storage space for over a year would signal seriously broken operation for any business large enough to place regular stock orders. - Kiljoy001, on 11/01/2008, -0/+7I don't think this will work out so well, as you see most of those carriers are notorious for being so damn stingy on the bandwidth. To top it off, a lot of them don't have the capacity to have hordes of folks getting on doing high bandwidth things. On top of that, as folks has noted that the data plans are not cheap, esp. with the nickel and dime folks to death. Cell phone companies in this country are the worst scum imo.
- clark24, on 11/01/2008, -1/+8I'm guessing most people have a "good enough" phone these days.. If you don't want the latest phone with a 10 Megapixel camera, touchscreen, etc.. you probably don't have a reason to purchase a new phone.
With the economy being the way it is, people will be much more likely to keep their "old" technology instead of upgrading. Things like first-gen HDTVs, 4G/5G iPods, camera phones, 5GHz computers, cars made in 2006... you know.. all that stuff we usually throw out or trade in after 2-3 years :) - eimersaufen, on 11/01/2008, -0/+7This is already happening here in Austria. Our 2 largest mobile providers already give them away for free if you sign up for a 2 year contract at 29€ / month including 5GB traffic:
http://www.a1.net/privat/netbook
http://shop.t-mobile.at/2151810010/1_1_3_5/6830009 ...
(Yes, it's German, but you'll clearly see the "0€") - NathanielJ, on 11/01/2008, -0/+5bumcheekcity
- KMartSheriff, on 11/01/2008, -0/+5*takes deep breath* Ah, marketing.
- spiffyfitz, on 11/01/2008, -0/+5You got ripped off. Sorry, broseph.
- dougs55, on 11/01/2008, -0/+5This alternative is possibly $98 plus tax and shipping if you don't want 3g:
http://www.gadgetreview.com/2008/09/the-98-hivisio ... - milomilomilo, on 11/01/2008, -0/+5Somewhere around $299-$399, just like the last $99 netbook.
though the old 2g surf is $200 right now.
I always wondered why there is a price point things never go below.
Like older computers. You would think I would be able to pick up a pc that was a new product @350 a few years ago for 100 bucks today but it isn't possible.
Anyone here know why that is?
Do they destroy the old products or something? - vrikis, on 11/01/2008, -0/+4In the UK you can already get most laptops with 3G plans for dead cheap, but the plans suck. I'd rather get a wifi netbook and use the free internet at the 3 places I am; at home, friends', university.
- CalcProgrammer1, on 11/01/2008, -0/+3Lol, Nonsense. Let the cell companies die if they can't keep up with their current market, I'll take my ridiculously-overpriced-broadband-less $300 EeePC anyday over subscribing to any nonsense spam scam of a broadband service. Mobile Internet doesn't get anything right yet, you're paying ridiculous prices for a capped, low speed, non-sharable connection when you could just get cable or even FiOS in some areas for a much MUCH better price/speed ratio. Sure, you can't take it anywhere, but if you don't travel much, it's a much better option.
- CasaMan, on 11/01/2008, -1/+4First:
When a product get older, volumes get lower, so profit margins drop. (It's cheaper to produce a million items and ship it, then say 100.000 items). Meanwhile consumer expect prices to go down. So production will stop pretty early. They'll move on to new products with higher margins.
Second:
Inventory is a kind of waste (Muda). Inventory is expensive and inventory is a risk. So the whole chain tries to keep inventory as low as possible. When you buy products on sale it's probably to clear out any items left in stock. If they can't sell it they'll dump it.
Edit: What HonoredMule says. - hornback, on 11/01/2008, -0/+3I can't be the only one who remembers the computer rebates in the 90's that you'd only get if you signed up for three years of compuserve or whatever that EVERYONE hated. This is basically the exact same thing. There's no way it'll ever catch on.
- djphatjive, on 11/01/2008, -0/+3Screw paying for 2 years and end up paying like 1500 dollars for a 289 dollar netbook. I'll just buy the damn netbook now. Has Wifi. My cellphone has unlimited and it fits in my pocket.
P.S. Woot has one for 289 today. - mydingaling, on 11/01/2008, -2/+5Is that how Sarah Palin spends her clothing budget?
- LowFuel, on 11/01/2008, -0/+3Finally, we will have the 100 dollar laptop. One laptop per child!*
(2 year agreement required) - wazzledoozle2, on 11/01/2008, -0/+2The US 3G networks couldnt handle tons of people using full-blown computers 24/7. iPhone usage already oversaturates AT&T's network.
- onuo, on 11/01/2008, -2/+4As netbooks in the UK are coming down in price, I really don't see this happening.
Maplins a UK brick-a-brack electronics seller were selling a cheap eee-pc clone for around £179, tesco are currently selling the acer one for £179 - fast forward to next year I see the next generation being £129 ish (if not cheaper) and so on.
There is more push, certainly in the UK, to take over your HOME broadband, that way television services can be pushed, look at sky, virgin and bt vision.
I live in a major city and mobile access is still to slow for my general internet wants on a handheld device and more importantly is still capped by every provider.
Providers have to sort out speed, availability and issues regarding restrictions of their services before punting it together with larger and more powerful devices, where people expect more. - reddikilowatt, on 11/02/2008, -0/+2That sounds great, but I'm sure they'll come with their own "Verizon Linux," that removes handy utilities like apt in favor of their own downloader that ties to their own application store, won't let you set things like wallpaper and text colors, removes useful (but bandwidth intensive) applications like streaming TV from your DVR (but they'll have plenty of "content" on their walled-garden web sites). And they'll change Java just enough to make it incompatible and charge for the SDK.
Meanwhile, people in Europe and Asia will have unlocked laptops that allow for amazingly useful applications to be developed by individuals and small businesses. Many of them are free. The US continues to be a walled off gulag of communication. - diktator279, on 11/01/2008, -1/+3Who uses the term "trousers"?
- mugupo, on 11/02/2008, -0/+2Because is in high demand, any the part is getting cheaper.
- LowFuel, on 11/01/2008, -0/+2"Sorry I missed your call, I was still booting."
- aserer511, on 11/02/2008, -0/+2I wouldn't be so sure about this. true as moore's law is, it has a baseline. we'll never see a 4 dollar iPod, we can all agree on? hyperbole? absolutely, but don't think ~149 isnt the rock bottom for a netbook. components ain't cheap
- Whackly, on 11/01/2008, -0/+1wimax baby.
- poisonborz, on 11/01/2008, -0/+1Because you can buy cheap used first gen netbooks. Now give me my Nobel.
- akatsuki, on 11/01/2008, -0/+1Without something like unlimited 3G/4G, I doubt it will take off. Netbooks might be lightweights for now, but people will want to bit-torrent and do all their normal things with them.
- inactive, on 11/03/2008, -0/+1They are already offering this deal at Carphone Warehouse... and have been for months now you fool.
Your stupid comment made me so angry I went and found the link.
http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/commerce/servlet/ ... - rocke86, on 11/01/2008, -0/+1Misleading, you'll end up paying the price and then some. Its like stimulus package, they use the idea of free money to lure unknowing people in but in reality it is just a loan with interest and extra bureaucratic overhead.
- dizilbdog, on 11/01/2008, -0/+1It's going to have to be a good deal. This might work for Wimax, but most cellphone plans at least the iphone is about 60 or 70 dollars a month. Then if you were to add a 3G netbook or something like that's possibly another 70 or more dollars a month. I mean most people would just have a phone and just wait to go home and get on a broadband or Fios network. It's going to have to be a really good offer.
- Whackly, on 11/01/2008, -0/+1Clearwire/Xohm FTW!
- Lane, on 11/02/2008, -0/+1Ive been using a fujitsu q2010 since they came out and its been my constant companion, I opted for the internal 3g network card and large battery which gets around 7+ hours cord free before needing a recharge. its got average specs for a modern pc 1.2 c2 solo, a gig of ram, and 80 gig hdd and its never once felt slow for what it's designed to do, I figure the fact that I COULD open up photoshop and it be horribly slow is a bonus to have such a compact from factor and a really nice screen with me constantly. aside from getting a phone number or quick "meeting at 6" I dont use even a quarter of the functionality of my cells windows mobile capabilities. I mean skipping out on paying $400 for an iphone and it's insanely high data plans will pay for a netbook and you can take the "free" phone option.
- HonoredMule, on 11/01/2008, -1/+2I can't see myself wanting the telecom industry's teeth in my netbook. For anyone who actually uses their cell as more than a traditional telephone, the purchase of an unmolested phone is a valuable, solid investment. But who buys a highly mobile mini-laptop NOT to use as a mobile computing device?
The struggle against DRM and anti-competitive/artificial-market-creating lockdown is bad enough now, thank you. - Robustica, on 11/01/2008, -0/+1*****
- lateralus, on 11/02/2008, -1/+2What's this "backlash against 3G" that you speak of?
//sent from my 3G iPhone - Culyt, on 11/02/2008, -0/+1I was annoyed that they went from $500-$300 (AUD) in under 6 months, also the model went from 701>901 with a much larger screen and an atom processor. But I guess its always going to happen like that.
☢ - Clbull, on 11/01/2008, -1/+2Or, get a laptop.
- diggimator, on 11/02/2008, -0/+1Japan already has 100 yen ( = approx. 1 dollar) laptops with the partnership of EMobile and EeePC. Same 2 year contract trick. It's actually a loan with high interest rates in disguise.
- zmex, on 11/03/2008, -0/+0my 16 year old says she'd trade up her cellphone (yeah right), for an Eee PC. any idea when this may come about?
- wolfeater2, on 11/01/2008, -3/+3***** THEM!!!
I just payed 800 for my Eee pc and now their giving them away for 100?
Who wants a new cell phone anyways? -
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