Netbooks for sale at grocery
January 13, 2009I dropped by the grocery at Pioneer Center and found a booth selling computer equipment and supplies. The equipment included a couple of netbooks — the Acer One and the Asus Eee PC — in various configurations, starting at about PhP12,000. The MSI Wind PC, the one built around a motherboard with Splashtop, was for sale for about PhP12,000, a hefty PhP3,000 less than the price at the malls. Splashtop is a mini-OS in ROM that takes you to a Web browser, email client, and Instant Messenger client within five seconds or so of bootup. I have a Flash video of Splashtop in action from my presentation at Y4IT, also available on an earlier post in this blog.
I daresay that netbooks are moving into the same territory as household appliances such as microwave ovens and air conditioners, which are also available at the Pioneer Center grocery. The next time you pop in for your week’s supply of milk, oat meal, and meusli, don’t be surprised if you bring home instead a netbook, and forget one or all of the other items. Anyone else see netbooks in a grocery in your area?
