Windows 7 for US$199. Good value or Goodbye?

Yeah, I'm not impressed.

I'll just get it with a new laptop, whenever that happens

Looks like I'll be stuck with Vista for a while now

When I had Vista I "upgraded" to XP

hehehehe I really really wanted to do the same

what's stopping u?

But got too invested with my stuff and then got lazy

This lappie won't last long anyways. So I'm just passing time

Never buying Dell again, that's for sure

understood

I've had some stinky experiences with Dell too

I've found for price that Acer & Samsung offer good deals

or if a netbook is more your taste the HP mini note 2133

I used to be on HP

Unfortunately, their new laptop range lacks SORELY in design

have u seen the mininote?

Oh yeah, I like it, but still a bit expensive

Think it's like $1000+

My Dell was $1500

how much over there?

USD?

AUD

much much cheaper here

AUD$575

Oh wait! The price has dropped!

Wow. Big diff in when it first launched

It's alway been cheap overhere

take a look at local offers and see if they look better

I doubt it. Electronics are always so higher in price here

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/107817,hps-mininote-best-laptop-under-1000.aspx

Yes I have some friends from OZ and they always show me some of the crazy prices over there

Totally mad

I'm moving to the US just for the fast internet and cheap gadgets!!

yup same specs and lower price here

Very nice netbook

It is

The nicest one on the market I think

I agree

keyboard is very nice with big keys

right gotta run check in with u later

Looks VERY nice that HP. 

Between NetBooks and now Google introducing its own operating system exciting developments are afoot.

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington wrote about this yesterday. Glowing report.

SNIP

Don’t worry about those desktop apps you think you need. Office? Meh. You’ve got Zoho and Google Apps. You won’t miss office. Chrome plus Gears plus Google Wave plus HTML 5and web platforms like Flash and Silverlight all combine into a single wonderful computing device. The Internet Is Everything. All the OS has to do is boot the damn computer, get me to a browser as fast as possible and then stay the hell out of the way.

Chrome will do just that. And it will be free, unlike Windows. Forget the netbooks, which Google is targeting initally. We’ll see PCs of all types being sold by the major manufacturers as soon as Google gets this out of beta next year. Microsoft has a very serious competitive threat to the core of their revenues.

I much prefer XP!

I paid $359 for my copy of Windows Vista when it came out in 2005. $49 to upgrade to 7 is nothing.

Vista is a dog.  The can have my XP when the prise it out of my cold, dead fingers!

Erik: Windows 7 is faster than XP on the same hardware.