Why pay $399 for a netbook when you can get the same model for just $79? That's the question Radio Shack hopes netbook shoppers will be asking themselves, and are prepared to answer with Acer's AT&T 3G-equipped Aspire One. Of course there's a caveat, which comes in the form of a qualifying 2-year AT&T service agreement on a rate plan starting at $60/month.
In case you missed it the first time around, Acer's popular Aspire One comes with an 8.9-inch LED backlit LDC screen, Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, Windows XP, and everything else you'd expect in a basic netbook configuration. This is also the same netbook that previously sold for $99 with a service contract, with the latest discount coming in anticipation of Verizon's deal to sell the HP Mini 1000 for a discount.
Let the subsidized price wars begin.
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