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Kogan cuts netbook cost
By Stephen Withers
Thursday,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, 13 August 2009 05:32
Your IT - Home IT
Low-price electronics retailer Kogan Technologies claims to get the very first sub-$400 10in netbook in Australia. At first marketing for $499, the Kogan Netbook is now priced at $399.
Specs consist of a 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU,
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The Professional model has similarly been lowered in price from $539 to $439. It incorporates 2G of RAM, a USB Bluetooth dongle, plus a six-cell battery.
That six-cell battery can be acquired separately for $64.
"We have established ourselves as a leader in this market and our buying power is increasing every day," said company founder Ruslan Kogan.
"Through our direct business model we can cut out the middle men and pass on these savings to our customers,
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The Kogan Netbook ships with the gOS operating system. "We are huge believers in cloud computing and open source software. The reasons are simple, open source software is usually faster, better and has more features," said Kogan.