Hasta La Gadget!

In the tech world you often get what you pay for. With that old adage in mind, one shouldn’t really expect all that much from the $.99 HP Mini 110c currently available from Best Buy. That said, a buck doesn’t seem like a big price to pay for a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 process, 1GB of RAM, and a 160GB hard drive, right?

What about $.99 plus $1,440? Thing is, one’s calculations should be more akin to buying a cell phone. That sub-$1 price tag is actually subsidized by Sprint, meaning, in order to actually get the netbook, you’ve got to opt into a two-year data plan at $60 a month.

So the moral, perhaps, is, you get what you pay for, so it’s important to check the fine print to find out how much you’re really paying.