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?
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Hi Miguel, thanks for dropping by. Checked again, the cheapest model is an Acer One at slightly above 13K. The 12K price was for an MSI Wind desktop mini-PC — apologies for the confusion. Pioneer Center is at the corner of Pioneer and United Streets in Kapitolyo, Pasig. Please let me know if you need directions, although IMHO, you’d still be better off shopping in a regular cyberzone-like area. You’ll have a wider array of choices. OTOH, there *is* the cool factor in telling your friends that you got your netbook at a grocery 
Incidentally, I forgot to mention in my reply to Miguel that I was mistaken on at least two counts. First off, it’s not the Asus Eee that’s on sale at Pioneer Center, it’s the MSI Wind. Also, it’s the Asus Eee Box that has Splashtop, not the MSI Wind Nettop — at least, I couldn’t find any references of Splashtop on the latter. As to pricing, the MSI Wind Nettop is available at malls for PhP14,995 (a price point it shares with the Asus Eee Box), whereas it’s about PhP12,000 at Pioneer Center.
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hi danny,
is the wind netbook at 12k still available? where is pioneer center?
thanks.
miguel
Posted by miguel paulino at January 19, 2009, 4:04 pm