News December 26, 2009

Think The Netbook Craze Is Slowing Down? Think Again!

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‘Twas The Day After Christmas

And All Through The Town

Not One Single Netbook

Could Somewhere Be Found

I set out today to grab a netbook for someone and got a bit of a surprise…

I went to the local Walmart and, when I asked about getting a netbook, I was just about laughed at. “None in stock!” they said.

OK, I thought… so I went to my local BestBuy. There were tons on display. I waited in line to get the Samsung netbook only to be told they had none in stock. “Okay, I asked, how about the Dell?” “Sorry, the woman told me, we don’t have a single netbook in stock!”

I went to two more stores and found the exact same thing. I’m sure there are netbooks available SOMEWHERE in the state but NONE of my usual haunts has one.

Seems like the message of the day is…

“NO NETBOOK FOR YOU!!!”

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Having a father who was heavily involved in early laser and fiber-optical research, Dan grew up surrounded by technology and gadgets. Dan’s father brought home one of the very first video games when he was young and Dan remembers seeing a “pre-release” touchtone phone. (When he asked his father what the “#” and “*” buttons were his dad said, “Some day, far in the future, we’ll have some use for them.”) Technology seemed to be in Dan’s blood but at some point he took a different path and ended up in the clergy. His passion for technology and gadgets never left him.

dbmurray

I live in a relatively small town. Our local Staples had a big display of Acer netbooks two weeks ago, but they’re all gone now.
Larry Greenberg

I picked one up Wednesday night at Best Buy. They had 5 left on the shelf. But when I asked if there were any more the salesperson said yes, we have HPs. They had a floor model of the HP on an end cap but none on the shelves. He went and got me one down off the high storage rack.
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techz4u

Wow, I never thought netbooks could be so popular and be sold out. I guess they would be a great gift for a good price. Good luck finding your netbook.
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