On The Good Guys' website it is $588 with $89 cashback (which brings down the total to $499), and I have already posted about it two month ago here. However in this week's issue of Southern Courier (local newspaper for south-eastern suburbs in Sydney, link here, March 11 issue), go to second page where the ads are (you might need to install some browser plugin), at the bottom right hand corner the same notebook is listed as $488 with $89 cashback — so it will be $399 after all!
I know the quality of those low-end Acer notebooks is not that good but it is a very good price for a full blown notebook running Linux. Here are the specs:
- CPU: Intel Celeron 1.86GHz processor
- RAM: 512MB
- HDD: 80GB
- LCD: 14.1" WXGA
- Optical: CDRW/DVD Combo
- OS: Linux
From a comment from the previous post it appears to run Ubuntu 7.10.
(Edited: Fix up the cashback amount — it is $89 instead of $99)
Wouldn't that be $389?