No contract, you see a lot of NETbooks advertised by cellular carries that will give you the same price if you promise your first born and sign up for the life span of 52 fruit flies. (2 years) Most of the NETbooks only come with flash drives for storage. This puppy has a full fledged 160gb hard drive and is priced less than what I paid for just a160gh hard drives when they first came out. I have not tried this unit but if I was in the market, I sure would be looking at it. Make sure you shop around, the $249.00 is at Target but who knows where else and what price you can get it for today. This pricing is just CRAZY, but I love it. Features 10" Notebook Computer with WSVGA LCD Display and 1024x600 Pixel Resolution Loaded with Windows XP Home, 160GB Hard Drive Capacity, Serial ATA Hard Drive Interface and 1GB DDR2, SO DIMM Memory 900 MHz Intel Celeron 353 Processor Built-In SD High Capacity Card Slot, Secure Digital Card Slot, MultiMediaCard (MMC) Line-In Jack, Memory Card Slot, US...