Acer rolls out low-cost Vista notebook [Electronista].
Thanks to VistA, costs per patient at the Veterans Health Administration system are 32percentt lower, using inflation-adjusted dollars, than they were a decade ago.
Just to give you an idea, if the only factor to consider was the Canadian vs. US price differential, the Windows Vista Ultimate would cost $449USD.
Vista may cost a lot for what it is, but Acer's TravelMate 2480-2779 laptop is quite the bargain.
StreamServe, a small tech firm in Burlington, Massachusetts that uses XP, is holding off after estimating that a move to Vista would cost $500 to $700 per PC.
Located near top universities and government research institutes and offering low-cost land, green vistas and a minimum of bureaucracy, the technology park helped to reverse Taiwan's brain drain.
The M700-S7002 costs $1799 and features Windows Vista Business and 2GB of RAM and the M700-S7001X costs $100 less and comes with XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 and only features 1GB of RAM.
Condominiums in the beachfront community of Vista Las Palmas cost $600,000 to $800,000, Ms. Wilson said.
They tend to go for big ones in good neighbourhoods: the property in Vista del Sol cost more than $600,000.
If a copy of Windows Vista didn't cost $300, the OLPC wouldn't exist.
Ina Fried of All Things Digital points out that $40 is less expensive than previous Windows upgrades have been -- an upgrade to Windows 7 Professional from Vista, for example, cost $100.
