I went out to look for a little Netbook today. Although my seven year old Compaq notebook is in good condition it's getting a tad slow (esp. since it only has usb 1.1) and it's also rather bulky. So I went to Harvey Norman, one of Australia's electronics stores.
I found the netbooks alright and had a look. Netbooks are downsized (in size AND features) notebooks or laptops. The one I was after has 3 x usb2, 1GB ram, 160GB hd, 1.6GHz Intel Atom cpu, a build in 1.3mp webcam, WiFi, blueTooth, Ethernet and a 10" widescreen that can display 1024x600. You can also attach a separate screen.
There it is, $799. That's a bit steep. I've seen it cheaper.I never haggled before but I just thought I'd give it a try. When the salesman approached me and asked if he could help me I told him "yeah, I like this netbook a lot. If you can sell it to me for $699 I'll pay cash and take one home right now". He of course needed to discuss this with a superior. It was mad busy, the rush before Christmas. He came back and said the lowest price he could get me was $719 which we agreed upon. Not bad for a first haggle attempt.
I was going down, still loads more people going up...
Outside a fire truck was parked for a while. I think the driver was having lunch.
After work we went to the Thai Orchid in Henley to celebrate Nic's start of her holiday.
Our cactus still has flowers. They look cool, kinda alien.
This is my new netbook after I unpacked it at home. It's now happily charging it's battery.
6 comments:
will you run the Eee with M$ or with Linux?
@ Kees: It comes with XP but the pre installed image has loads of shit I don't want. Apparently there is a copy of the WinXP setup on the cd but... it doesn't have an optical drive so now I'm reading up on different techniques on how to setup Windows from a USB stick. Once I have all this figured out I wouldn't mind trying Linux again. I think the EeeBuntu edition may be good for this. I don't know yet.
It looks really funky. I thought those prices sounded way steep... till I realized you were speaking Aussie... dur...
Anyway if I don't speak to you b4, Have a Merry One!
Hi Vincent:
I have a disk/usb adapter, you can connect ata/sata and 2.5 disks to it and plug it in a computer. I used it with a dvd drive connected to it and installed an os (fedora in my case) from it, most recent machines can boot from usb and the disk/usb thing always comes in handy if you have disks lying around.
Shall I drop it by your place?
@ The G: I just managed to boot off of a USB stick. But the WinXP provided with the device seems very stripped down and it's more like an image really. I'm not entirely happy with that because it has loads of shit installed that I don't want...
Feel free to drop by btw, but no need to bring the adapter :-)
ps, the price is not bad, compared to Holland, it looks like they are 430-470 e here with an 80GB disk. Roughly the same price as in the US.
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