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Why You'll Buy a Netbook On Black Friday
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Not in Australia
Does that also go for laptops you 'import', or isn't it possible to 'buy abroad'?
A lot of netbooks doesn't come to my country because executives and managers deem my country too small, however it's rather easy to buy those cheap Linux netbooks in another country. However, on the other hand, we were probably the only country where those cheap Linux netbooks (actuall, the worlds cheapest one I believe) was sold in the toysstore; so we may not complain.
A lot of netbooks doesn't come to my country because executives and managers deem my country too small, however it's rather easy to buy those cheap Linux netbooks in another country. However, on the other hand, we were probably the only country where those cheap Linux netbooks (actuall, the worlds cheapest one I believe) was sold in the toysstore; so we may not complain.
Australian Dollar currently 66% US dollar plus shipping, usually makes it cheaper to buy the Australian deal anyway. I priced the ASUS netbook available in Oz against the ZaReason one, and it was still cheaper to by the OZ one, even taking into account remote (Australian remaote areas) shipping charges.
Those remote area shipping charges do add up, but it's understandable, as this photo of TA tending to her solar collector shows:
http://www.wired.com/images/article/full/2007/07/5_350px.jpg
Sorry TC that's not me, it's my partner, she doesn't trust me with all that glass.
Just got an MSi Wind in for Review
We just picked up one of the MSi Wind's to take a look at. Since I needed an ATOM system to do a bit of development on it made a pretty good deal for the whole package.
So far it's fairly solid aside from needing a very recent Linux distribution to install (Fedora Core 9 didn't work, Xubuntu was fine).
So far it's fairly solid aside from needing a very recent Linux distribution to install (Fedora Core 9 didn't work, Xubuntu was fine).
Tell us more, please.
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In Australia they tend to be $50 to $100 more expensive with Linux. That's still a better deal, but.....