[X4U] iPad news

[Zane H. Healy]

It sounds like your used price is about the same, but your prices for 
netbooks are higher.  I can pick up a Netbook for about $300 (or if I 
am patient, I could get either a netbook or notebook for as low as 
$250).  I just checked and it looks like I can get a used MacBook 
1.83Ghz for $700.

Zane



At 5:35 PM +0100 1/29/10, alexandre wrote:
>no, not yet!
>
>netbooks can cost between 400 and 500 swiss francs (hp mini 110c, 
>asus eeepc 1005ha, lenovo s10e, acer aspire one, to name a few!) and 
>it's hard to find a no too old macbook for that price. a 1.83 or 2.0 
>ghz one sells for 700-800 francs.
>
>alexandre
>
>On Jan 29, 2010, at 02:45 , Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
>>  At 11:14 PM +0100 1/28/10, alexandre wrote:
>>>  that's exactly my problem here. i need a cheap(-ish), light 
>>>laptop to take on my photo trips for simple editing and keywording 
>>>in lightroom. i'm looking at some cheap netbooks but i can't get 
>>>myself to support and troubleshoot a windows machineS my solution: 
>>>a second hand macbook
>>
>>  Can you even find a second hand macbook as cheap as a new low-end 
>>Windows Laptop?  That has been my problem when looking at that 
>>solution.
>>
>>  Zane
>>
>>
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| Zane H. Healy                    | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary)    | OpenVMS Enthusiast         |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet)           | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
|     Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing,    |
|          PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum.         |
|                http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/               |