True, it's just an ordinary netbook from an ordinary company, but the
Gateway LT2106u is now official and brings with it a contractual obligation to Verizon Wireless in return for a discount off the claimed $500 retail price. Just don't get too excited about your new found frugality since you'll still be forking over monthly access fees as high as $60 per month for 5GB of data. The netbook itself packs 3G data (presumably via Qualcomm's world-wide Gobi) and the usual N270 Atom proc, 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 display, 1GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive, WiFi, and up to 6 hours of battery life if you shut everything down but the 3-in-1 memory card reader. Available October 4th for $150 after mail-in rebate.
posted Oct 1st 2009 1:37AM
laughing and flames in 3...2...1..
Blast off! lol $60 and 5GB?
This can't go well.
nvidia ion or not?
Are these mail in rebates supposed to be a incentive for me to buy the item? Because it makes me run the other way. Even when I can afford a hole the size of the rebate in my bank account (This goes for any companies mail in rebate).
I find it rather funny that Verizon chose the Gateway-branded version of the Acer Aspire One D250. Guess they didn't want to people to think it was just a larger, thinner version of the Aspire One A150 AT&T has. And at $150 after mail-in rebates ($250 before), it's quite overpriced especially for a nearly year-old design. It should be no more than $100 out the door.
$60 for 12 to 24 months or $500 up front? Yeah . . . I don't think they're going to win over anyone but extremely poor suckers here.
of course there is always a sucker somewhere, that's why verizon and att has customers...
Americans are rich
$60 a month for 5GB each month on contract
Over here in the UK i pay £15 ($25) for unlimited DATA, pay as you go
what provider?
man... i'm getting closer and closer to leaving the US.....
Damn you for getting Working For The Weekend stuck in my head...