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Orange To Addict You To Mobile Broadband By Offering Up A Eee PC

Posted in Commentary with tags on August 15, 2008 by itnerd

Starting tomorrow, Orange in England will be offering you an Eee PC (the Asus Eee PC 900 16G if you want the specific model) as well as mobile broadband Internet for £25 a month:

“Francois Mahieu, Director of Devices for Orange UK has also hinted this will be the first of many: “This launch is just the start, over time we will be expanding our offering even further with more suppliers who are at the forefront of laptop technology.”

Perhaps Orange was watching what RBC in Canada was doing with the Eee PC? But before you run out and get one (assuming you’re in the U.K.), take note of this. You’ll have to become the slave of Orange sign up for a 24 month contract to get this deal. But that is better than the contract length of 36 months that Rogers Wireless in Canada wants you to be their bitch for to sign up for so that you can score an iPhone.

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Open A Bank Account, Get A Eee PC For Free!

Posted in Products with tags on May 1, 2008 by itnerd

In what is likely the coolest promo EVER, RBC Royal Bank here in Canada has a promotion where you get an Asus Eee PC when you switch to their checking account service. That’s right, you get an actual computer after completing the move (and dealing with a lot of red tape). That beats the toasters, calculators, pens, and guns that other banks give away. Keep in mind that this is the version that comes with LINUX, but throwing XP on it is easy to do once you pirate acquire a XP license and read the manual.

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Coolest, Portable PC, Ever.

Posted in Products with tags on February 26, 2008 by itnerd

I just got my hands on a Eee PC from Asus today, and boy was I impressed. The Eee PC is a sub-notebook that is taking the world by storm. It priced at under $600 and comes out of the box with LINUX (Xandros LINUX to be specific), comes with OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox, Skype, Tux Paint and other educational entertainment software, E-mail, and Internet radio applications. Another big plus, it can be installed with Windows XP (although you’ll have to buy your own copy as they don’t ship it with the Eee PC) and it comes with complete instructions on how to do so (and drivers to boot). It weighs absolutely nothing (2lbs), comes with 2-4 GB of flash storage, 512MB – 1GB of RAM, Ethernet, WiFi, external video, a 7″ color screen that does 800×400 resolution and even comes in a bunch of colors. Did I mention that it’s UNDER $600? It’s the perfect computer for someone who simply needs a web surfing or e-mail machine. Or perhaps it’s the ideal computer for educational institutions since it has flash storage which means no hard drive for kids to kill.

Asus has a winner on its’ hands here. Check it out today at your local computer store.

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