Preorder for Wind 6-cells battery

Just now I had submitted a preorder for my MSI Wind netbook to Corbell. They are now giving a special price of $99 for the battery and each first batch buyer can only buy 1 unit at the special price. So add on to my earlier purchase price of $864, which includes an upgrade of RAM to 2GB, the total cost for my Wind comes to $963.

Compared to the people who bought the Wind during the recent Comex, I'm paying much more than what they are paying. The specifications for the Wind at the Comex remains almost the same except that it now comes with a 160GB SATA hard disk, a 6-cell battery with a free 3-cell battery. If the option of upgrading the 1GB RAM to 2GB RAM applies to them, these new batch of owners are looking at a grand price of only $934, which is $29 less than what I'm paying.

It might not seem like much but with that extra money, I could have gotten myself an optical mouse AND a laptop skin.

Well, I guess that's the price to pay for being the first adopters of the popular netbook. At least I get to use it for a few months before others. Should I console myself based on that? Hmmm....

But you have got to admit it's pretty tiring to wait infinitely for the 6-cell battery to arrive. MSI really tests its customers patience to the limit.

Damn...