Wow, these prices are... fantastic... as in "someone's got lots of fantasy".
The best part is that you even have to PAY a FEE now in order to let yourself be ripped off in the future. If I pay 9$ now they will buy back my LCD (current price around 500 €) in 18 month for 10$. Great business model.
Anyone with eBay-experience can tell that you can usually still get quite reasonable prices when you sell stuff on eBay, even when it's already 1-2 years old.
Funny fact is that it seems that Nokia is using money that it was given by the state in order to secure that production facility to shift the jobs to Romania. The state of Nordrhein-Westfalen and the German federation are now checking whether there are legal means to get these subsidies back.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"All of these new nettops have me intrigued. I'm looking for a small, quiet and cheap PC to replace my aging tower in my home office, and all it really needs to do is load Microsoft Office, check email and surf the web. Is there a particular nettop that's better (or a better value) than another? I know it's a rather new segment, but hopefully someone has taken a chance on one already. Thanks!"
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