New Toy/ What You Can Find At Walmart At 4am - Page 6

Amber Lamps · 04-24-2009, 06:51 AM

So remember that I was talking about netbooks and wanting one? Well, I stop at Walmart to pick up some milk on my way home and I spot this netbook with a $199 sign on it. I'm like, "no way!". So I corral a very reluctant employee to track down the keys to the case and sure enough it's the Acer Aspire one like at Att except without the sim card port. 160G HD, built in WiFi, weighs under 3 lbs, 1.6 processor, 1G DDR2, etc. Fucking Score!!! I've been playing with it and since it's Windows XP with 1G of ram, it's damn fast! WAY faster than my "good" laptop. Of course it doesn't have to deal with Vista and 100 other programs like my Dell does.

Obviously, the first thing I did was dowload a 1 1/2 hour movie from my GoPro.... hello, like 2 minutes! I think we have a winner! I'm gonna try it out for a week or so and see. Otherwise, there was a really nice piece at Best Buy for $300 with a 10" screen. Of course, there's always the "Evil Tigger" method of getting it from Radio Shack for $80, cancelling my contract with Att and kicking them their stupid $175 eary termination fee... it would still make that unit $255 which isn't too shabby since it retails for $400!

04-24-2009, 06:51 AM	#1
Amber Lamps Moto GP Star Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 14,556	New Toy/ What You Can Find At Walmart At 4am So remember that I was talking about netbooks and wanting one? Well, I stop at Walmart to pick up some milk on my way home and I spot this netbook with a $199 sign on it. I'm like, "no way!". So I corral a very reluctant employee to track down the keys to the case and sure enough it's the Acer Aspire one like at Att except without the sim card port. 160G HD, built in WiFi, weighs under 3 lbs, 1.6 processor, 1G DDR2, etc. Fucking Score!!! I've been playing with it and since it's Windows XP with 1G of ram, it's damn fast! WAY faster than my "good" laptop. Of course it doesn't have to deal with Vista and 100 other programs like my Dell does. Obviously, the first thing I did was dowload a 1 1/2 hour movie from my GoPro.... hello, like 2 minutes! I think we have a winner! I'm gonna try it out for a week or so and see. Otherwise, there was a really nice piece at Best Buy for $300 with a 10" screen. Of course, there's always the "Evil Tigger" method of getting it from Radio Shack for $80, cancelling my contract with Att and kicking them their stupid $175 eary termination fee... it would still make that unit $255 which isn't too shabby since it retails for $400!