I don't think asian people who buy a netbook care about these features.
Asians have tiny fingers and you will be amazed how many thumb drives they carry
around. My sister has 512, 1gb, 2gb, 4gb, 8gb in her bag and she's asking if I can buy
her a 16gb. It's weird.
If the battery runs out. LOL...they always have one iphone and one nokia 5800 with
them. No one can understand why they need 2 phones at a time. Probably only Asians,
so I am not too Asian afterward
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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp
Your math kinda sucks... You need a $318 monthly plan, which is around $45 CAD per month. And you have to pay for the laptop outright - $3480 HKD (about $500 CAD). The $500 is "returned" to you in equal monthly payments over 2 years.
So really, it's not "free", it's subsidized over 2 years. And the monthly plan is only usable on the laptop - you can't take a SIM and stick it in an iphone or a 3G router or anything. So that's $1080 CAD going to a plan that is only usable on a single laptop. Which essentially is paying for the laptop as well, on top of the 2 year payment plan you are giving them.
Like most "awesome deals" in Hong Kong, this one doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
Also it's a POS with a crappy battery (about 2 hours). Take a look at a review of the Onkyo C204 it's based on (it's a shitty review, but you can get an idea of how it looks and performs):
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yes, I aware it won't work on iphone or other PDA phone.
I almost fell into their "Laptop + 7.2Mbps plan" deal early this year when everyone at work bought one from Smartone.
It was 388 x 24 months + $2400 subsidized over the next 2 years,
so I think 318x24 months + nettop is not bad.
My gf needs a new computer and internet after she moved anyway, this should be better than the regular PCCW ($168 3M plan)
and it is within my budget. =)