On the Cheap: Best Buy to Sell $249 Laptop
Best Buy will today launch its "lowest-advertised-price laptop ever," ringing in at just $249.
The dawn of netbooks has meant getting your hands on a cheap-as-chips computer is easier than ever. Granted, they might be a little on the dainty side, but for $300, who's complaining?
Oh, you're complaining? Well, perhaps you'd like to pick up Best Buy's $249 laptop that the company is launching today as part of "a dynamic holiday computing selection." The exact model is not yet known but we do know it's an Acer machine powered by an Intel Celeron 900 CPU with 2GB of memory, and a 160GB hard drive. Not great but definitely not bad for a laptop that clocks in at under two hundred and fifty bucks.
We'll keep you updated on the exact model when we hear more.

I was going to say the exact same thing only minus the DRM stuff...
Would make an excellent Linux box. I like the idea of Linux on laptops since most of the time you can't really play games on them anyhow so its the perfect situation to install a nice Linux distro.
anyways, +1 to Regulas
It's just like that first under-100$ blueray player we had here on the news last year: just happened to be a darn pile of crap that catches fire after a few weeks/months.
I've gotta buy my daughter her first laptop for next school year and I sure as hell ain't gonna wimp out and buy her a piece'O'Crap just cause I could save a few hundred dollars on it.
I want to make sure I get her something she will be able to use for All her school work no matter what the work may be, whether it's graphics, movie production, Arts, 3-D rendering, Programming, what ever she may need it for.
After all, you get your child a cheapo laptop, you're only limiting what they can do where as if you get them something really good, at least they may be able to do better than they otherwise would have done.
Remember, you get what you pay for and education is not something to go cheap on.
"Asus - Eee PC Netbook with Intel® Celeron® Processor - Black: Our Price:$249.99"
Here is the spec:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+Eee+PC+Netbook+with+Intel%26%23174%3B+Celeron%26%23174%3B+Processor+-+Black/9447495.p?id=1218106121199&skuId=9447495
outch, that's gonna hurt our trust towards TH
Since, Bestbuy has seperated laptop and netbook... so they may be talking about a upcoming $245 "laptop" not "netbook".
If that was the case... then my bad...
outch, that's gonna hurt our trust towards you
1 CAD (closing) = 0.9457 0.9523 USD
And it has been like that for weeks, even months.
The strong CAD was more than a year ago! Keep up pal
"Acer - Extensa Laptop with Intel® Celeron® Processor - Black " "Model: EX5230E-2177 | SKU: 9632183"
Cadder was right, It is $249.... but it is already sold out on website... now store only.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Acer+-+Extensa+Laptop+with+Intel%26%23174%3B+Celeron%26%23174%3B+Processor+-+Black/9632183.p?PID=934410&id=1218134616331&ref=39&productCategoryId=pcmcat99300050006&loc=01&URL=http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9632183&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat99300050006&id=1218134616331&AID=10597222&skuId=9632183