someone going to gcds, please help!

[Teo Mrnjavac]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Ian Monroe<ian.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Peter Zhou<peterzhoulei at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, that could possibly be a solution. The only thing i am worrying
>> about is if the netbook is sufficient enough for the hackthon.
>> And btw, is eepc expensive in italy or spain as the mac price was ridiculous?
>
> Its probably just as expensive most places in Europe, its probably the
> VAT. That adds up to 20%. I remember when I got a receipt in Spain
> that printed the VAT I was pretty shocked, I'm used to the 6-8% sales
> tax we have here in the states. (I'm also used to the constant
> insecurity of pisspoor health care, so there ya go).
>
> If the netbook is horrible at hacking (which I wouldn't expect,
> especially with SSD and the huge icecream nets at akademy), in that
> worst case you can just use it as a dumb terminal. Just ask someone to
> give you an account on their computer. (I couldn't on mine due to NDA
> stuff, but probably not that hard to find someone).
>
> I think the netbook sounds like a good idea. I wish I had one.
>
The Aspire One A110 does have a really slow 8GB SSD but it's as good
as it gets for 199€ here.