[elearning] Acer Aspire One - Rudd money

[Donna Benjamin]

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 14:06 +1000, Mark Kelly wrote:
> I trust discussion of Rudd money is at least partially relevant to your 
> eLearning plan, especially planning your implementation strategies.
> 
> The panel UMPC from Acer is a cute thing - and cheap. You get lots of 
> change from your Rudd $1000.
> 
> We got one to play with and see whether it can stand running Win Vista - 
> our standard platform in 2009.
> 
> 6 hour battery life!  Not bad...
> 
> Anyway, the interesting thing is the pricing:
> $313 ex with Windows XP.
> $469 ex with Linux.

Ermmmm... are the specs on the machines the same?

> Now isn't that really interesting - Linux is free, and Windows costs 
> negative $156 dollars!
> 
> I'm gonna buy 10,000 copies of Windows and make a fortune...

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