computerworld.com — Netbooks like the Asus Eee PC will soon cost $99. The catch? You'll need to commit to a two-year mobile broadband contract, just like your cell phone. Why so low? 1) the economy; 2) the cell phone sales crash; 3) the netebook explosion; 4) the netbook glut; 5) the netbook's Internet dependency; 6) the backlash against 3G; and 7) Moore's Law!
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rocke86Nov 1, 2008
Misleading, 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.
honoredmuleNov 1, 2008
The 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.
spiffyfitzNov 1, 2008
You got ripped off. Sorry, broseph.
norumeniNov 2, 2008
Buried for snobbery.
lateralusNov 2, 2008
What's this "backlash against 3G" that you speak of?//sent from my 3G iPhone
reddikilowattNov 2, 2008
That 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.