begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:06:27PM -0800: > Brad Beyenhof wrote: [snip] > >$2500 for a subnotebook-- with Windows? Are you kidding? > > No. Not at all.
Well, it's the MSWindows bit that has me gasping. > A) It's a *damn* small form factor. Much smaller than a laptop and his > comment was a notebook/PDA thing. This is effectively a full computer > in a slightly larger than PDA form factor. > > B) It has built-in Edge network support (no external card) > > C) It has 48GB of flash as a hard drive substitute. > > Prices go up exponentially for smaller size decrements when you get to > the smallest computers. That's how it works. It's more expensive the farther you get from the median on the bell curve. This is something we should have learned in our "Intro to Economics" classes. If us Linux folks are going to be so cheap, no wonder stuff like this ships with MSWindows. I'm cheap, but I'm starting to think that being cheap is a bad idea when it comes to exercising market power. -- There's no sense courting someone who won't kiss you. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
