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Office Depot new $500 LAPTOP after rebates!!!
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:58 am
by EvilHorace
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
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 12:00 pm
by FlyingPenguin
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.
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:01 pm
by EvilHorace
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 ?
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:12 pm
by FlyingPenguin
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.
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:17 pm
by IRunHoTT
OK HP got bought out by Compaq right? I know somehow they are related, and Compaq blows
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:36 pm
by b-man1
HP bought Compaq...or is at least the majority of the two after merging.
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:28 pm
by MoFo
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
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:03 am
by EvilHorace
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?
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:30 am
by FlyingPenguin
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:42 pm
by EvilHorace
Yeah, not much more $$$ either.
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:02 pm
by wvjohn
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
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:33 pm
by FlyingPenguin
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.