Updated at 4:30 p.m. PDT: adding Windows 7 and Celeron processor information.
There’s a new $299 laptop in vogue at stores–and it’s not a Netbook.
Toshiba 15-inch Satellite has bounced around in price from $299 to $329
(Credit: Best Buy)
These laptops sport big screens, optical drives, plenty of memory, and reasonable graphics horsepower. In other words, this is nothing like a $299 Netbook.
And, in case you haven’t noticed, they sell out quickly. The $298 Wal-Mart laptop was gone before most people could reach for their wallet and the Best Buy $299 Acer laptop vanished almost overnight once the price went viral.
Best Buy chimed in again very briefly for a few days (during the week of August 3) with a $299 Toshiba laptop sporting a 15-inch screen but then bumped the price up to $329.
But whether it’s a $298, $299, $309, or $329, it’s a laptop design that has landed. And it a real competitor to the 10-inch Netbook, which costs about the same.
Here’s the challenge: a lot of the Netbook’s appeal is price. If retailers offer something with more robust hardware in the same price range, these tiny laptops are at risk of …
Originally posted at Nanotech – The Circuits Blog
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