Office Depot new $500 LAPTOP after rebates!!!

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:58 am

In store only. It's because of deals like this that I won't even TRY to sell my old laptop now as I'd have to give it away

http://officedepot.crossmediaservices.c ... CatID=5209

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 12:00 pm

Except I hate that those budget HP lappies. Everytime I work on one for a client I never cease to be amazed how friggin' slow they run.

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:01 pm

I'm sure that at that price it's hardly state of the art stuff BUT I'd have to think that it's gotta be faster than my 4 yr old Laptop with a P3 850 mhz cpu ?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:12 pm

I dunno Evil. Should be, and you can always return it in 30 days. Overall I haven't been very impressed at all with budget HP laptops. They're terrible performers.

I have one client (a doctor) who has one and the video lags like crazy just on the desktop unless I disable all visual eye candy in XP. Totally inexcusable for a 1 year old lappy.

IRunHoTT · Post by **IRunHoTT** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:17 pm

OK HP got bought out by Compaq right? I know somehow they are related, and Compaq blows

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:36 pm

HP bought Compaq...or is at least the majority of the two after merging.

MoFo · Post by **MoFo** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:28 pm

I had an HP and it would over heat all the time :/ ran great till it got hot and that was all the time

thanx

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:03 am

Hmmm, well I thought that maybe it'd be a good deal but maybe not. Even my old Toshiba laptop plays videos, movies well. I don't need another laptop (have two now) but I thought that it might be a good deal for someone who did? Sorry. They also have other brands on sale for about $200 more but perhaps they aren't very good either?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:30 am

I'd buy a Dell Inspiron 1200 first: http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/ ... 00R1&s=dhs

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:42 pm

Yeah, not much more $$$ either.

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:02 pm

I just got a Dell 700m in that last sale for the wife - it has shipped so I'll report in after I have a chance to play with it - my son has my old HP lappie that I got like 2-3 years ago on a 50% off coupon deal and it has always run well and plays movies fine - it was about 1500 list at the time though, has like a 1.3 ghz athlon 512 ram - the ol' k6-2 500 that the dell is going to replace is pretty slow doing simple stuff under win98

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:33 pm

The 700m is the upgraded version of the 600m, and the 600 is a sweet lappy. Not a powerhouse, but light and long battery life.