You can get the acer laptop for $1751 - http://www.pricespy.co.nz/cat_22.html which makes this deal even worse.
Seems more like keep costs down by supplying something cut down with no ability to upgrade the memory, and no ability to use the very good and cheap collection of available, linux compatible pcmcia gear out there. I can't see where the no OS discount applies. Add $200 for Win XP and you are at $1700.00. Add another $200 and you get the acer travelmate (XC5467) with a 2.5G celeron max 2G ram, 2 pcmcia slots. IR, a vid chip that will do dri in xfree 4.3, I am left wondering whether that price difference of $200 isn't in fact the price difference in real hardare features, and nothing more.
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