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Posted at 10:47 AM on Tuesday 01/6/09 by
Ben
Hotness UNHOT
NewEgg.com has the ASUS Eee PC 4G 7" Notebook EeePC4G-BK029 for $250 - coupon code EMCABAGAJ [Exp 1/12] = $200 with free shipping. This variation on the EeePC sports an Intel Mobile CPU, with 512MB DDR2, 4GB SSD, running Linux. It weighs about 2 pounds and boots in 15 seconds.
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    RKLE - Posted 10:59 am PST 01/6/09 (8910 Posts)  Report Spam

    This is more about what these are worth.

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    boxingfan - Posted 11:03 am PST 01/6/09 (458 Posts)  Report Spam

    No 1080p, so no deal.

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    gassyjoe - Posted 11:09 am PST 01/6/09 (2518 Posts)  Report Spam

    Price is getting down to where it should be but the specs on model are a bit low. 512MB of RAM and 4GB HD make it not a good buy.

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    tehduke - Posted 11:22 am PST 01/6/09 (418 Posts)  Report Spam

    Specs are low? C'mon, it's for web browsing and email. That's it. Basically a PDA with a keyboard.

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    reboot - Posted 11:26 am PST 01/6/09 (15 Posts)  Report Spam

    Perfect for a car computer with a 9" VGA USB touch screen, USB GPS and a USB powered DVD drive and have movies and MP3s.

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    osmosis_ricardo - Posted 11:27 am PST 01/6/09 (73 Posts)  Report Spam

    PDA with keyboard? Does it too bulky to be consider as PDA? I agree it may be a very cost effective email machine but not as PDA

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    gassyjoe - Posted 11:29 am PST 01/6/09 (2518 Posts)  Report Spam

    If you check out some reviews of these things you'll see that they are very sluggish with less than 1GB of RAM, even for web browsing and email. If you buy this unit get yourself some more RAM for it as I'm pretty sure this model has a user accessible memory slot.

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    tarnis - Posted 11:44 am PST 01/6/09 (423 Posts)  Report Spam

    SSD drive is the
    Knock Knock.
    Who's there?
    Bacon.
    Bacon who?
    ...can upgrade it to 2gigs for peanuts after rebate.

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    techsupport - Posted 11:57 am PST 01/6/09 (5127 Posts)  Report Spam

    You can easily flip this to an ebaytard for $50 more if you don't like it.

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    ibm650 - Posted 12:00 pm PST 01/6/09 (477 Posts)  Report Spam

    For this price, has a webcam, now just put in 2gig memory and you have a useful machine.

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    mrbb - Posted 12:01 pm PST 01/6/09 (43 Posts)  Report Spam

    Does Asus' express gate work on their Eee PC's for even faster booting?

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    cocoapuph - Posted 12:18 pm PST 01/6/09 (44 Posts)  Report Spam

    I was contemplating which is the better deal:
    14 of these OR 1 of the new $2800 MacBook Pros.
    Hmmm...

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    sandman - Posted 12:41 pm PST 01/6/09 (486 Posts)  Report Spam

    #12, that's like comparing a Ferrari with a 10 year old Moped. Granted the Moped gets better mileage, and for a 16 year olds first vehicle, and with only a piggy bank full of quarters, that may be a compelling reason to forgo the Ferrari, but at the end of the day,everything else about that comparison is ridiculous.

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    Attikai - Posted 12:47 pm PST 01/6/09 (423 Posts)  Report Spam

    14 of these is certainly the better deal unless you must run with a herd.

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    da5id1 - Posted 12:50 pm PST 01/6/09 (682 Posts)  Report Spam

    #12 You with a new MacLap won't make a difference. Giving 13 of these away to children without access might.

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    cheapandlots - Posted 1:13 pm PST 01/6/09 (177 Posts)  Report Spam

    #15 - I was thinking the same thing. At this price, this is very competitive to the One Laptop Per Child thingy. Maybe instead of a Wii, I'll give my favorite kid one of these machines.

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    ramazank2 - Posted 1:50 pm PST 01/6/09 (145 Posts)  Report Spam

    Just like Steve Jobs Macs make me sick....

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    mr.ed - Posted 2:03 pm PST 01/6/09 (2497 Posts)  Report Spam

    Unless your eyes are as good as and your fingers small as a 6 year old, this isn't for you.

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    tarnis - Posted 3:19 pm PST 01/6/09 (423 Posts)  Report Spam

    I dunno...14 of these would make a nice beowulf cluster.

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    undefined - Posted 4:22 pm PST 01/6/09 (383 Posts)  Report Spam

    for a current generation netbook, these specs are low. but then again, this is a previous generation netbook. the worst aspect is the screen: 800x480. most web pages are design for at least 1024 and side-to-side scrolling to read the full width of a web page or article gets tiring quick.

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