[Leaplist] Two-Year 3G Wireless w/Notebook for Free (or almost free) -- WAS: RadioShack Offers $99 Acer Netbook

[Jim Hartley]

If you think of it as buying a wireless connection, and they throw in a 
cheap Netbook to use to connect to it, that's one thing. When you buy a 
cell phone you KNOW you're paying for the service.

**BUT** they seem to be pushing this as a really cheap computer, and it 
isn't. I would like to have a laptop, but I can't justify spending the 
money, I wouldn't get enough value out of it for the money. **IF** I 
could really buy a $99 Netbook, I wouldn't care if it had some kind of 
wireless or not - it would just be a portable device that I could synch 
with an ethernet or USB connection when I got back to my desktop PC ... 
what I'd really like is a sort of a thumbdrive with a screen and 
keyboard and enough guts to run OpenOffice :-) THAT'S what I was hoping 
the $99 thing would turn out to be.

Jim Hartley

Craig Conner wrote:
>> Yeah, right!! Only $99 ... **PLUS** $60 per month for two years!
>> A real bargain ... NOT!
> 
> Why not?  Most cell phones are sold under exactly those circumstances,
> and sometimes for higher per-month fees.
> 
> As TheBS said, "This is nothing new, and you're going to see more of it."
> 
> And while cable modem and DSL providers like to say they provide a
> "always on" connection experience, they ain't seen nothin' yet:
> 
> The Internet fits in your pocket and stays with you:
> EVDO Rev A  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVDO#TIA-856_Rev_A
> HSDPA  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Speed_Downlink_Packet_Access
> 

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