#11,
Yep, we need to get out of Latin America to get decent prices :(
#21,
Obviously, you don't understand anything about mobility.
If you want "true" mobility, you should look for:
- A expensive (north of $2,000) ultraportable laptop from Fujitsu-Siemens, Sony, etc.
- The ASUS Eee PC at $400 which performs surprisingly good despite its modest hardware.

This is a pretty good deal for the average user. However, I would much prefer a gently used IBM Thinkpad for the same money. They're much better in quality than pos Dell.

Asustek's Eee PC should be $200. Besides Dell's $400 deal, you can get $500 laptops from newegg any day of the week which makes a $400 Eee PC seem ridiculous.

Die EEE pc. DIE.

If you're willing to spend a couple of hundred more and deal with WalMart on black friday, you can get a Dell 1501:
http://bfads.net/Dell-l1501PH003W-at-WalMart
Turion X2, 2GB, Vista Home Premium, $598
(At Dell.com without coupons I can't configure that system with 2GB and a DVD writer for less than $714)

In my country Dell is selling almost the same notebook (they don't offer the DVD burner as an option, just a 24X CD/DVD combo drive) for $ 3,604.30 (ARG pesos) == $ 1,144.22 USD (US dollars). O_o

http://lastore.dell.com/store/frameset.asp?c=ar&cs=arbsdt1&entity_k...VOS1000_AR&entity_type=CFGSET&l=es&s=bsd&shopper...[om]

I guess lots of others thought it was a good deal too. Sold out. :`(

This is now on there as Sold out!

Doesn't seem to still work

There are similar deals floating around for Black Friday at around that price and for those specs.

x2 processor to boot with a decent size hard drive. Definitely a good deal.

Wow...I feel out of touch with those prices...that sounds like a crazy good deal. Its very tempting...last time I bought a laptop I paid nearly 1000 bucks for 512 ram, and a 2200 Athlon XP-M with only a cd burner and a 60 gig drive. Oh...and it has wonderful SiS integrated graphics.

That sounds like a great deal to me. If I was in the market for a laptop, Dell would get my money.