Netbooks are no longer cheap?

Having once again become interested in netbooks (subnotebooks) , I decided to see what is new in stores. I live in Ukraine, so I will call our prices.

So ... what lay on the shelves two months ago is the same. But it lies with a huge price difference! If the subnote from Acer cost about 2200-2400 UAH ($ 400), now they are priced at 3500-4000 UAH ($ 400). And the very first Asus eeepc 701 from the price of 1500-1700 UAH ($ 300) jumped to 3000-3300 ($ 600)! This is just unrealistic prices for "cheap" computers. For such a price you can buy a good sistemnik home.

Then I decided to see what was going on in the market of online stores. And as I was surprised when I saw there almost the same prices as in real stores. Yes, the prices in dollars did not seem to have changed ... As MSI Wind u100 cost about $ 450, so it’s worth. But they bought them at 4.8 - 5 UAH per dollar, and now they write a course - 7.9 UAH per dollar. That is - the price on the flat has doubled. And now the main question of the topic is why should people buy netbooks in such a situation? If earlier they were really cheaper than desktops and large laptops, now these devices are for whom?

UPD . Price attributed to dollars.