cheapest notebook prices?

[Spencer]

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I was in Wal-Mart the other day when they made an announcement over the speaker system. They said they had one HP laptop for $398.

I rushed over there to see what the heck was going on. What had happended was that they had a few of these to sell on the morning after Thanksgiving. One of those promotional items to get everybody to line up for hours in the cold before they opened the doors. Anyway, one person got there early after Thanksgiving and put this HP laptop on layaway. I don't know if they will only hold these things for so long or if the person came back and said they didn't want it, but either way, they decided to announce it for sale over the speaker system. I didn't have long to decide if I wanted it or not because other people started showing up to buy it. I was the first one there so I went ahead and bought it.

HP Pavillion ze2308
Mobile AMD Semprom 2800+ Processor w/ AMD Power Now
1.6Ghz, 128KB l2 Cache
XP Home Edition SP2
256MB 333MHz DDR SDram
40 GB Hard Drive
24x DVD Rom/ CD-RW Combo Drive
54g 802.11b/g WLAN
15" XGA TFT Screen
ATI Radeon Xpress video card
2 USB ports
S-Video Out


It seems like a fine laptop so far. I don't know much about AMD, but for $398 I figured I couldn't go too wrong. I need to send my current laptop in for some warranty work and this will be a back-up to use during that process as well as whenever else it is needed.

Spence

 

[Glenn9643]

Looks to me like you got a deal Spencer!
I've used AMD CPU's for about 10 years now, and always felt they gave more for the $$$.
Hope it gives you good service.

 

[TresCrows]

I have an AMD Athlon 64 Mobile. It is a good unit. This lap top is an Averatec 6200series with movie player, wireless, lot's of USB ports and all that, not a cheapo really but not as expensive as the top shelf stuff, 60G HD but it has more capability in most ways than a pretty nice Dell desk top downstairs. AMD is certainly not a reason not to buy a computer. I saw those 400 dollar deals, your right, they are nice, it was a special to get people in and they only had a very few.Glad you got it. Good luck with it. I love my lap top, that is all I can say, so much nicer than hunkering down in the basement with the big ol' Dell. J

 

[AB4D]

I have the same HP Pavillion ze2308wm as Spence. My wife and I picked up one each at Wal-Mart the day after Thanksgiving, but the price that day was $379.00 /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif. On Ebay people are getting $450.00-$500.00+ for these computers. The computer works great for web browsing. I used to have to go to the basement everytime I wanted to get on the internet, but because the laptop has built in wi-fi capablilty, it connects easily to my wireless router. I can now go anywhere in the house while I'm on the net. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Jim