$300? Really? For $300 you can buy a cheap PC or a netbook which can do much more than this device. Unless this device can cook food, it's not worth it. I think $100 would be a more realistic price. $300? Really? For $300 you can buy a cheap PC or a netbook which can do much more than this device. Unless this device can cook food, it's not worth it. I think $100 would be a more realistic... » Read More $300? Really? For $300 you can buy a cheap PC or a netbook which can do much more than this device. Unless this device can cook food, it's not worth it. I think $100 would be a more realistic price. « Show Less
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I agree. I DID get a netbook for the kitchen and travel. The KeyIngredient website has alot of issues, so I use allrecipies.com and its great. Both of my daughters also listed their recipies on the site so we can go into each others cookbooks (no more calls of :Mom I need the recipie for...."although I'd better still get calls!! hehe).I just cannot figure out how Demy can justify the price for a gadget that merely holds info. even though I too justified the price of the Kindle. I find myself more and more going online for new recipies, and taking the netbook into the kitchen anyway so....maybe once the demy becomes worth it's price I may consider it, but until then....netbook is the way too go. I agree. I DID get a netbook for the kitchen and travel. The KeyIngredient website has alot of issues, so I use allrecipies.com and its great. Both of my daughters also listed their recipies on the site so we can go into each others cookbooks (no more calls of :Mom I need the recipie for...."although I'd better still get calls!! hehe).I just cannot figure out how Demy can justify the price for a gadget that merely holds info. even though I too justified the price of the Kindle. I find myself more and more going online for new recipies, and taking the netbook into the kitchen... » Read More I agree. I DID get a netbook for the kitchen and travel. The KeyIngredient website has alot of issues, so I use allrecipies.com and its great. Both of my daughters also listed their recipies on the site so we can go into each others cookbooks (no more calls of :Mom I need the recipie for...."although I'd better still get calls!! hehe).I just cannot figure out how Demy can justify the price for a gadget that merely holds info. even though I too justified the price of the Kindle. I find myself more and more going online for new recipies, and taking the netbook into the kitchen anyway so....maybe once the demy becomes worth it's price I may consider it, but until then....netbook is the way too go. « Show Less
1495937
2 more good reasons to go the netbook route,(they are so cheap) thanks DB I SOO agree...also learning more crafty way to get my girls to call me..(hehe)
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I couldn't agree more. It's a little pricey for the device. And it seems ic could do much more making it easier to put recipes on. I am going to wait for Demy #2.
1495939
Exactly what I was was thinking! I love the idea of having no more cookbooks (or books for that matter--also bought the kindle) I recently purchased a netbook for travel for the same price as this so it would be hard to justify spending the same amount of a unit that will only allow you too read recipies.I went to the website to check it out (keyingredients.com) and it looks like a great site to type in my recipies however there is suppose to be a partnet site (scanmyrecipies.com) and they are nowhere to be found (or I could not find them).I emailed the company and recieved no response so I would be very worried about any kind of support I may need....... Exactly what I was was thinking! I love the idea of having no more cookbooks (or books for that matter--also bought the kindle) I recently purchased a netbook for travel for the same price as this so it would be hard to justify spending the same amount of a unit that will only allow you too read recipies.I went to the website to check it out (keyingredients.com) and it looks like a great site to type in my recipies however there is suppose to be a partnet site (scanmyrecipies.com) and they are nowhere to be found (or I could not find them).I emailed the company and recieved no... » Read More Exactly what I was was thinking! I love the idea of having no more cookbooks (or books for that matter--also bought the kindle) I recently purchased a netbook for travel for the same price as this so it would be hard to justify spending the same amount of a unit that will only allow you too read recipies.I went to the website to check it out (keyingredients.com) and it looks like a great site to type in my recipies however there is suppose to be a partnet site (scanmyrecipies.com) and they are nowhere to be found (or I could not find them).I emailed the company and recieved no response so I would be very worried about any kind of support I may need....... « Show Less
1495940
I think this device sounds fantastic (& I'm a Kindle owner too). BUT I have two full notebooks (3-inchers) full of recipes that I've either clipped out of magazines, printed off the Internet or typed up myself from various sources. I'm an avid cook. What happens if the device goes kaput or the website goes under? Do I lose all of my recipes justlikethat? That really concerns me.
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There are some cookbooks for the Kindle- in fact a while back there was a free cookbook for the Kindle- which is actually a pretty good one (I've gotten some recipes out of it that aren't bad). I believe it was the Cook's Illustrated How to Cook Library. I doubt it's still free, but it's worth looking into. And if you have recipes in a .pdf format you can transfer them to your kindle via usb for the Kindle 2 or converted & emailed to your free kindle email address & then transfer them over for the Kindle1. But you can't download them directly per se unless they are a Kindle cookbook. But my understanding is that you have to use a usb cable for the demy as well, so... seems like nothing lost there. There are some cookbooks for the Kindle- in fact a while back there was a free cookbook for the Kindle- which is actually a pretty good one (I've gotten some recipes out of it that aren't bad). I believe it was the Cook's Illustrated How to Cook Library. I doubt it's still free, but it's worth looking into. And if you have recipes in a .pdf format you can transfer them to your kindle via usb for the Kindle 2 or converted & emailed to your free kindle email address & then transfer them over for the Kindle1. But you can't download them directly per se unless they are a Kindle cookbook. But my... » Read More There are some cookbooks for the Kindle- in fact a while back there was a free cookbook for the Kindle- which is actually a pretty good one (I've gotten some recipes out of it that aren't bad). I believe it was the Cook's Illustrated How to Cook Library. I doubt it's still free, but it's worth looking into. And if you have recipes in a .pdf format you can transfer them to your kindle via usb for the Kindle 2 or converted & emailed to your free kindle email address & then transfer them over for the Kindle1. But you can't download them directly per se unless they are a Kindle cookbook. But my understanding is that you have to use a usb cable for the demy as well, so... seems like nothing lost there. « Show Less
1495942
I'm going to go the netbook and allrecipes.com route also. If I'm going to spend a few hundred dollars on something cooking specific, then when I come home after work too exhausted to think or plan, or if I tell the girls in my running group to drop by for snacks in a few hours, I want to do a search for ingredients I have on hand, and have some recipes pop up right away. Searching by first letter of recipe title or by tags is simply not enough functionality.Cheryl, you have to be crafty about getting those calls from your daughters. Don't load their favourite recipes onto the site. :-D I'm going to go the netbook and allrecipes.com route also. If I'm going to spend a few hundred dollars on something cooking specific, then when I come home after work too exhausted to think or plan, or if I tell the girls in my running group to drop by for snacks in a few hours, I want to do a search for ingredients I have on hand, and have some recipes pop up right away. Searching by first letter of recipe title or by tags is simply not enough functionality.Cheryl, you have to be crafty about getting those calls from your daughters. Don't load their favourite recipes onto the... » Read More I'm going to go the netbook and allrecipes.com route also. If I'm going to spend a few hundred dollars on something cooking specific, then when I come home after work too exhausted to think or plan, or if I tell the girls in my running group to drop by for snacks in a few hours, I want to do a search for ingredients I have on hand, and have some recipes pop up right away. Searching by first letter of recipe title or by tags is simply not enough functionality.Cheryl, you have to be crafty about getting those calls from your daughters. Don't load their favourite recipes onto the site. :-D « Show Less
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This price seems like a rip off. I would only buy it from Nutrisystem. This is way too expensive, it does not cost this much for the 28-day plan. The MOST you would pay for this plan would be $300.00. Do your homework before you purchase fro this seller. Seems fishy.
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No one appreciates forward thinking more than I do, but consider that this model already sports a dual-core processor. It also has nearly 4 Gb of RAM (enough for one of the two 64-bit cores) and a relatively small screen. My point is this: for $300.00 it is an outstanding value. I use my quad-core machine with 16 Gb (RAM) desktop to do the heavy processing in my life - this machine is perfect for the periphery work that I do whenever I'm not at home. Can the processor be upgraded? Perhaps - but with much difficulty. And yes it is soldered in but that isn't the main issue here. Quad core, Hex core, and everything on up would require a RAM upgrade to utilize those processors effectively - otherwise one may be throwing $$$s and time out of the window when it may be more cost and time efficient to simply buy a more powerful netbook, laptop, etc. with the power-user features already baked in. I hope this helps.
1837900
I don't know but $300 is a ripoff. As you say, no wifi or HD means this should be $150 in my opinion. Its a freakin' accessory and not a Slingbox. Bad move Sling.
1220709
Hi. This is a professional model.. The $80 or so ones are not.. Look at the specs 100 power level settiings, cheaper models give you about 10 and they are not anyway near as precise. I do not have a cheaper model so my comparison is by a lot of research I did, reading reviews, etc. etc.I own 2 of these and do not regret the expense at all but then I am into precision cooking also.Good luck in your search Glenn
913078
This is a Chromebook and you can do anything on it that you can do on any other PC. BUT, don't buy it!!!! It's a piece of junk. I bought 5 and 4 were dead within a month (one upon receipt). If you want a Chromebook for about $250, buy the Samsung. The $250 PC's, such as Asus, are also crappy.
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Why go through the bother? The price-point of this Acer is so low, it wouldn't make much financial sense to try building your own server. When you add the cost of the case, motherboard, RAM, hard drive, network card, and then the cost of the Home Server operating system (which you have to bother yourself with to install on a headless device), what would really be gaining? Far easier, IMO, to just pull the trigger on either this Acer or something else similar (HP has a low-cost server, too, though it's got less features than the Acer, which is why I went with Acer).
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Well, it's an issue of supply and demand. The product is no longer manufactured, and New Old Stock - which this is - is in limited supply. Most of us who want or need this device will settle for a used or 'refurbished' one for a fraction of that $489.99 price, but sellers of the NOS item are asking the highest price they think they can get - and if you check around, you'll find that this inflated figure (roughly ten times its original retail price just several years ago) is in fact in the ballpark.
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I love my HP Chromebook's 14" display. It is so good that I have ditched my Windows PC and use my Chromebook as my sole computer. I had a Samsung 11.6" Chromebook, which was great, but the 11.6" screen was too small for me. The HP 14" screen is much larger and better.Ask the complainers to name a single 14" screen that is even comparable to this HP 14" screen at this price. They can't, because there is none. Have I had better screens? Yes, in $2,500+ laptops. But this isn't a $2,500+ laptop, or even a $1,000 laptop. It is a $300 laptop, with a very good screen.I'll tell you, a problem with all this technology is that it has turned many men into girly boys who think they have to whine about something all the time. I love my HP Chromebook's 14" display. It is so good that I have ditched my Windows PC and use my Chromebook as my sole computer. I had a Samsung 11.6" Chromebook, which was great, but the 11.6" screen was too small for me. The HP 14" screen is much larger and better.Ask the complainers to name a single 14" screen that is even comparable to this HP 14" screen at this price. They can't, because there is none. Have I had better screens? Yes, in $2,500+ laptops. But this isn't a $2,500+ laptop, or even a $1,000 laptop. It is a $300 laptop, with a very... » Read More I love my HP Chromebook's 14" display. It is so good that I have ditched my Windows PC and use my Chromebook as my sole computer. I had a Samsung 11.6" Chromebook, which was great, but the 11.6" screen was too small for me. The HP 14" screen is much larger and better.Ask the complainers to name a single 14" screen that is even comparable to this HP 14" screen at this price. They can't, because there is none. Have I had better screens? Yes, in $2,500+ laptops. But this isn't a $2,500+ laptop, or even a $1,000 laptop. It is a $300 laptop, with a very good screen.I'll tell you, a problem with all this technology is that it has turned many men into girly boys who think they have to whine about something all the time. « Show Less
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Nope. It's basically an excellent tablet with keyboard. Might as well buy a real laptop for that, lots of deals under $300 going on now!
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Chrome OS is amazing but I heard it is free from Google. Then why the hell should I be paying $449 for a LCD screen and a Key board. It is damn expensive. I would pay around $110 for that piece and another $49 for Chrome OS. (As I will have to pay for Apps Separately). I know that the concept is different but apart from an Online source for your data, This product doesn't make any sense for $449 when you can get a new Win-7 laptop for $299.
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If that's the case, then you can have mine for a mere $500....(just kidding...I see the price ranging here, but its usually somewhere between $12 and $20...probably some mysterious glitch...check again later.)
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No, not most expensive. You can get refurbished cheaper that lasts longer though. I use refurbished after buying the first few name brand ones. They don't last.
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I have this computer; the Lenovo S10. I enjoy it very much. But this is not a new machine, and shouldn't be something you are waiting to receive. I would suggest that you cancel your order and order again through another supplier. It's there on newegg.com for the same price and free shipping.If you can get by with a HDD of 80 Gb, you can even save some money. If you order the model with 512 Mb of RAM, or even 1Gb, it's easily upgraded to the maximum of 2 Gb by investing an additional $20 in a 2Gb RAM stick. Installing it takes under 5 minutes.Finally, if money is not an issue, and you would like something similar with a 6-cell battery, take a look at the Samsung NC-10. I have this computer; the Lenovo S10. I enjoy it very much. But this is not a new machine, and shouldn't be something you are waiting to receive. I would suggest that you cancel your order and order again through another supplier. It's there on newegg.com for the same price and free shipping.If you can get by with a HDD of 80 Gb, you can even save some money. If you order the model with 512 Mb of RAM, or even 1Gb, it's easily upgraded to the maximum of 2 Gb by investing an additional $20 in a 2Gb RAM stick. Installing it takes under 5 minutes.Finally, if money is not... » Read More I have this computer; the Lenovo S10. I enjoy it very much. But this is not a new machine, and shouldn't be something you are waiting to receive. I would suggest that you cancel your order and order again through another supplier. It's there on newegg.com for the same price and free shipping.If you can get by with a HDD of 80 Gb, you can even save some money. If you order the model with 512 Mb of RAM, or even 1Gb, it's easily upgraded to the maximum of 2 Gb by investing an additional $20 in a 2Gb RAM stick. Installing it takes under 5 minutes.Finally, if money is not an issue, and you would like something similar with a 6-cell battery, take a look at the Samsung NC-10. « Show Less
1862006
Try a different one. I was skeptical as well... you won't find one for much less than $300 US. Worth it though!
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You could easily build a gaming computer for this price with much better specs. Just look up "$500 gaming computer build" on google and some good stuff will pop up.
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I have been thinking about it but after reading everything I can find it doesn't appear to be anything I would tackle myself. The cost of hiring an expert and buying Windows 7 would come close to buying another computer. I am using this Windows 8 machine and hating it every minute. As soon as I can afford it I am trashing it and buying something else. The actual hardware seems good. It is just the operating system that is trash. I would not buy it. I would search for an older computer with Windows 7 on it. I have Windows 7 on my laptop and love it. I hope this helps. Charles