Acer Aspire AO722-0825 Netbook: AMD Dual Core C-60 1GHz, 11.6" LED 1366x768, 4GB DDR3, 320GB HDD, Radeon HD 6290, WiFi N, HDMI, 6-Cell Battery, Win 7 Premium 64-Bit $250 + Free Shi

i think i will hold on to it. Will wait for better price

I bought one (c60,2GB DDR, 320gb) from Target for a little over $200 back in Nov last year. I have not seen it anywhere close to that price ever since. My teenaged son is using it and he is quite happy with it but he also uses a desk top for bigger jobs. I would like to have one for traveling but I am not sure if I want to pay $250 plus tax. I have a couple of Staples rewards totaling $100 so I may go to the store and get one. Is this code, 425960 online only or can I do a kiosk order at the store with the code?

thanks for the heads up, my laptop just crapped out on me and this fits the bill. coupon code worked fine, hopefully it gets here before my upcoming trip...

I got this for $200 last sept at target and returned it. Netflix was slightly sluggish, flash enriched websites were a little laggy and overall it ran quite hot. At the speed of advancement for technology, I definitely would not pay $50 more for this nine months after it sold for $200!

awesome little netbook. Love mine, though I do think I'd like to invest in an upcoming $500 brazos 2.0 ultrabook

been using this flawlessly since they had these on sale at target. It can hiccup every now and again while playing certain files but no errors and excellent battery life so far. If you need something portable, nothing really beats this at this price point.

Got 4 of these way cheaper from target a while back and none of the users have anything but good things to say about them. But I did explain what a netbook was before hand, which some of you have issues with. No ultrabook in this form factor gets significantly better battery life, there is just not enough space to cram batteries in 11.6". However, $250+tax is not even close to a slick deal.

Quote from ecliptic113 : I got this for $200 last sept at target and returned it. Netflix was slightly sluggish, flash enriched websites were a little laggy and overall it ran quite hot. At the speed of advancement for technology, I definitely would not pay $50 more for this nine months after it sold for $200!

I'm not sure if this has been fixed yet, but microsoft didn't have a hardware accelerated version of silverlight (which netflix uses to play your vids) which is why it suffered from poor performance on these. I've yet to run into a laggy flash site however.

Quote from sanjeeva7 : Just want to chime in this has enough processor to act as a HTPC. Hulu and ESPN3 stream with no issues even on wireless B. Anyone running into slowness issues more than likely is running this with all the bloatware loaded. Wipe your drive and do a clean install it will run much smoother.

I was just thinking that the specs seemed pretty good for an HTPC. If I was not happy with how my AppleTV 2's serve my HTPC needs, I'd consider this.

I don't know why people are expecting so much from a $250 laptop. It's already a miracle it plays 1080p content flawlessly with HDMI out and all.

Buy one, coupon work, thanks

Quote from HY-SD : I don't know why people are expecting so much from a $250 laptop. It's already a miracle it plays 1080p content flawlessly with HDMI out and all.

I'm in the market for a new netbook, but I think that you can do better for just a little more. Netbooks with the much better E-350 have been around this price a couple of times (there was actually a HP one about 6 months back with the E-350 for $200 through tiger direct). This deal isn't bad, just not hot.

I am in for one, thanks OP!

Also, I've found some helpful links in an older thread for this same netbook and figured I'd share:

http://slickdeals.net/f/4159382-A...it49083784

Lots of good info there, and supposedly one of the settings to enable better performance on streaming HD really helps out. Also has links for Win 7 drivers if you want to reinstall everything minus the bloat that is bundled on it originally.

The new model was announced today check it out,
http://m.engadget.com/default/cla...latest_art