The Gateway LT2114U from J & R photo was $343 inc. shipping. This 10.1 
screen does have Wifii, ethernet, and bluetooth. I plan more than the 
scanner for it, to be a mobile PC while traveling including driving GPS. 
While I was spending this type money, a few more dollars, no big thing, 
better than wish had something later. Should have it Monday, New York 
City to Cleveland, Oh. There's the weekend. If they offered priority 
UPS, might have went that route, gambled on Saturday delivery for 
roughly same price. And of course this is quantity one price.

On 6/24/2010 7:44 PM, Vitaliy wrote:
> RussellMc wrote:
>    
>> Retail/Factory cost typically lies in 4:1 - 5:1 range for Chinese made
>> goods. BUT it may well be that eg HP aim for much lower or much higher
>> deep-ending on the target. eg inkjet printers may cost about 1:1
>> delivered-cost:retail $.
>>
>> But for say a $600 laptop, say 5:1 = $120 cost.
>> Cost of stamping, packing etc CD should be cents I'd think (having no
>> real world feel for  the real figures. Even at 10 cents that's
>> 1:1200 or ~= 0.08% of end cost. "
>> Most people" may not care, but their support people probably do, and
>> many would care in due course if they knew the implications.
>>      
> So you think that a netbook that sells for $200 retail, costs $40 to
> manufacture? We would pay cash for 100 netbooks, if we could get them for
> $150. We would buy as many as 1000 if we could get them for $100/pc.
>
> Let me qualify this. I know you can get a 7" netbook that runs Windows CE,
> for $100. We need one that can run real Windows software.
>
> Vitaliy
>
> PS I agree that the cost of a restore CD is negligible and PC vendors should
> include it in the price.
>
>    
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