Windows 7 Laptop Deals
 

I ran into Joel at BB and he was looking for a cheap Windows 7 laptop. I told him I'd keep an eye out and here's what I found with a quick search.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...ct_id=13029688 If you choose the first laptop on the list, you get it plus you get an additional Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade for an existing computer for $447 total. Not bad.

Or just get the laptop, alone, for $399. http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...ct_id=12456201

Be sure to go to bing.com and type in, "stereo walmart" and you can get 10% cash back off your purchase from Walmart.

Or here's one for $330 that you can pick up at BB. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba+...=1218122295102

I couldn't get bing to offer any cashback for BB though. It was giving 5% earlier this week.

The BB link sends me to my empty shopping cart.

Woops. Fixored.

Great deal on an Xbox 360. $100: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/new...deal_confirmed

That article also says that there will be a laptop for under $300.

Actually, that's an xbox 360 arcade for normal price ($199), but you get a $100 gift card. Sure, you get $100 of free stuff, but you still gotta plop down $199 on the deal. And there was a rumor going around that its only going to be 5-10 per store, not the whole inventory of 360 arcades.

Lots of good laptops here: http://www.deals2buy.com/

I'd grab one of the Lenovo's.

The Lenovos are awesome. I love my S10.

I'd get this one:

Lenovo IdeaPad Y550 - 4186CTO, Intel Core 2 Duo processor T6600 (2.20GHz), 15.6" HD Wide LED, 4GB RAM, 320GB, SuperMulti DVD Recordable (Tray type), nVidia Geforce G 210M graphic card with 512MB memory, 802.11 a/b/g/N, 1.3 webcam, Dolby® Home Theater audio and a subwoofer, 6-in-1 card reader, Multitouch pad, VeriFace™ face-recognition software, Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit), 6 Cell Battery, 1yr Warranty » for $629 at Lenovo(IBM ThinkPad)

It could handle gaming and anything else you throw at it. It's too bad it's got a 5400 RPM HDD but that can always be upgraded down the road.

Damn... laptops have finally gotten pretty affordable. How does Apple justify $3000 for their nicer laptops?

Well, you could spend $3k on a nice Dell too (albeit with double the power of the Apple model).

But yeah, the low-end laptops (and netbooks too) have really come down significantly. The cheap-ass Apple laptop used to be a good deal at $1000 (i.e. only $200 over priced), but now its double the price of comparable laptops.

Apple is the "exotic" of the computer world.

My internal mac vs. pc war was won last week by windows 7 and cost. So I ordered a decently spec'ed samsung notebook from bestbuy, when it showed up yesterday it somehow had a .1 ghz slower processser than it was supposed to. I sent that shit back today and I'll see how well this turns out this week.

Thanks for this Cody. I went to the bestbuy by scheels and they still had the "sale" price that I saw at the other best buy. The thing I love most about best buy is that they were dying to sell me the insurance for the computer. I couldn't see the benefit of buying a $450 laptop and then spending $265 on insuring it.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba+...&skuId=9553896

Yah, that's pretty retarded. We paid just over half that amount to extend the 1 year warranty on the HP I just bought for our Marketing manager to 3 years Next Business Day (through HP). And that was on a $1K laptop.

Performance laptops are definitely cheaper these days. My "old" ASUS G50V pretty much can do anything (including run XP!) and it's nowhere near as expensive as a Mac.....

Even then not a bad deal because mine is broken.

I think you can swap your hard drive into the arcade and it'll be like yours never broke?

Amazon is having a similar deal today too. They did a batch at 6am (which is already sold out) and another will happen at noon. Its part of the Gold Box stuff.

I doubt it'll last long, but if you want one its worth a shot.

I got this today from best buy
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4764
last one clearance+500g 7200rpm drive+10% off= $700
so far I don't miss my macbook at all

You got Vista?

tonight, yes.

I'm downloa.....err buying 7 right now.

lol. Seems like a good deal despite the Vista. :)

I think it was a good deal, I dislike dell in general but the xps models are nice. I'm not digging the leather on the backsidethough so I may replace it with alligator skin or something more pimpin. baby seal fur?

Van, is that laptop the Studio XPS? If so, I know two friends that bought that laptop, and after many errors took them back to get the HP equivalent. Let me know how it works for you.