(Untitled)

[cokebottletuque]

I'm thinking of getting an Eee PC 1201n, but I can't find anyplace that's selling them locally and if I'm going to buy one the time to do so would be before Wednesday.  So my question is dose any one know of a comp shop that might have one?

Comments

[asmodai]

When I got my eee 1005 best buy in Cambridge had the 1201 in stock.

Newegg.com is also an option. Their next day shipping is often stupid cheap and sometimes free.

[asmodai]

Next day from newegg is $27 to Cambridge on that item. Not bad, really.

[asmodai]

Actually, it come out cheaper to do newegg with "next day saver", since you'd avoid 6.25% sales tax.

[cokebottletuque]

If you don't mind me asking why did you opt for the 1005 over the 1201? I called best buy earlier and they didn't have them in stock in mass and where sold out online, if I had found the 1201 a day earlier I would have had perfect timing for the start of their sale... I found a couple of other likely suspects to call in the morning for local pick up but if they don't pan out newegg it is I suppose.

[asmodai]

The 1005 is smaller (fits in my large coat pocket), lighter, has better battery life, and was less costly; it just sacrifices some speed I'm unlikely to REALLY need for thing I use a netbook for. I only needed a basic netbook, and I knew I'd only actually use it if it were stupid easy to take with me

[cokebottletuque]

I thought you where going to say that those are the 3 main things the 1201 doesn't have going for it. I'm used to hauling my midsized laptop around so I'll see some benefits from the smaller form factor, and spec wise this would be an upgrade from my laptop in almost every way which is rather sad considering what I paid for my laptop once upon a time. The only thing that I'm not getting that I really like to have is a S-video port, but on the bright side it looks like the vga to svid converters have finally gotten to what I can consider a portable form factor.