Cheapest Possible Laptop with a Back-lit Keyboard

[Howard Charles Best]

Dear Prabhus, Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

If you live in the USA, you can have it delivered to your door for only US$632.59!

Several months ago, I decided to not buy any more laptop computers that don't have a back-lit keyboard. This is because I like to save electricity by using my computer at night without any room lights on. A back-lit keyboard is also very handy when using the laptop out-of-doors or in a moving vehicle at night.

Here's a laptop which is rated at 8 hours of battery life, has a back-lit keyboard, has an LED back-lit display, has an ultra low voltage Intel Duo Core CPU, has a built-in DVD burner, weighs only 4 pounds, and has many other extras. What's the catch? The catch is that it comes with Windows Vista Premium, but you can upgrade it to Windows 7 Premium or even to Windows 7 Ultimate for free. Here is a review written by someone who did just that:

http://www.amazon.com/U20A-B2-12-1-Inch-Laptop-Windows-Premium/dp/B002PAQXCC/ (Scroll down to "Customer Reviews")

Here's how to do it:

1. Go to http://www.ebates.com/stores/all/index.htm?navigation_id=10103, become a member, and click "ZipZoomfly Coupons & Cash Back"

2. When you get to ZipZoomfly, do a search for "U20A-B1"

3. Buy it!

$739.99 minus $100 mail-in rebate minus 7.40 cash back from http://www.ebates.com/ = $632.59 (Free shipping and no sales tax outside of California!).

If the screen (12.1 inch) is too small for you, then use it with an energy saving, LED back-lit external monitor.

Your servant, Pratyatosa Dasa (http://causelessmercy.com/ http://rtvik.com/ http://pratyatosa.com/ http://feedacow.com/ http://llbest.com/)

[Howard Charles Best]

Dear Prabhus, Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

The Asus U20A-B1 laptop is the best deal around. I got one, and it's a masterpiece of engineering! I'm using it right now to send this email. Even though the LED back-lit display is  very bright and the back-lit keyboard is on maximum brightness, the computer is only using 18 watts!

 

By the way, the display can be made much, much brighter for use in direct sunlight.

 

To buy one yourself, you could go directly to:

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10011663

...to purchase it, but if you follow my instructions from the first email that I sent (See below), then you get $7.50 cash back. Please note that the price went up slightly, so now the deal is:

$749.99 - $100.00 mail-in rebate - $7.50 cash back from http://www.ebates.com/ = $642.49 (Free shipping and no sales tax outside of California!).

It comes with Windows Vista Premium, and it includes a free upgrade to Windows 7 Premium, but why learn a new operating system? Simply install Windows XP! The latest, greatest version of Windows XP Professional was made available as a free download just 3 days ago! No CD key, no computer name, no user name, no language, and no time zone to enter. The only time that the installation pauses is a few seconds after it starts so you can enter, "I agree!" Other than that, the whole thing installs non-stop, and it installs lots of very useful extra software!

 

Here's the URL:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5212877

And here are step-by-step instructions on how to download and install all of the Asus U20A XP drivers and utilities:

Here are the XP drivers.

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Good luck!!

(http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20091030010033125&board_id=3&model=U20A&page=1&SLanguage=en-us)

 

A couple of additional drivers are needed, so if you actual decide to do this, please let me know, and I will send you additional instructions.

Your servant, Pratyatosa Dasa (http://causelessmercy.com/ http://rtvik.com/ http://pratyatosa.com/ http://feedacow.com/ http://llbest.com/)