Gateway P6831. It's a refurb and it's Buy.com But HOT HOT HOT for those specs! Def worth a shot with a good CC I guess.
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very good deal...damn, I wish I needed a laptop.
nietsni3 said:the screen resolution is a little lowI have a 17" laptop w/1440x900 screen and let me tell you it's not that low.
Great deal OP!
orion23 said:Amazing deal, crazy actually!
It is. I dont like Gateway myself, although I've never had any problem with Buy.com unlike others seem to have on here. I also legitimately am in the market for a new laptop but didnt want a 17"...I was after a well spec'd 13.3 or 14" one. I jumped on this without hesitation though. I figured at this price, I'll get this one for the more stationary heavy work AND pick up a cheap lighter spec 13" with integrated video and all for the general web surfing and stuff for when I am constantly on the road so to speak.
From the little bit I've read on these so far...it looks like a swap to the 17" Dell XPS WUXGA screen is relatively easy and about $115 to get a better + higher resolution display. Also has a second unused HDD cage so you can make one of your externals internal if you want, or even set up a raid config, and a few other worthwhile 'tweaks' like that. Some of that stuff may be worthwhile if the laptop isnt a POS. CPU swap is supposed to be easy as well, but havent come across anything just yet about if a penryn would work in it. CPU is pretty limiting given the rest of the specs, so it would be nice if a T8300 or something could be found at a decent price and swapped in. If the laptop doesnt feel like a total POS when I get it, assuming it ships, I wouldnt mind spending another few hundred on some of those changes, which would make it even better and still under $1k.
i put a 3.0 c2extreme mobile chip into my Gateway by the way. now i can play age of conan + cod4 flawlessly. You can upgrade the screen too, just search it. This computer is almost fully upgradeable except for video which is already top notch!
I'm also in the market for a new laptop, I have a 15.4" that is too heavy, so i'm looking for a nice 14" laptop....but now, i'm like, DAYUMMM.....i want this laptop bad!!! I've never seen a price so low for a laptop w/ such a good discrete video!!! I'd have to sell my 15.4" laptop on eBay, then pay the difference for this monster, and then still be looking for a light laptop i could take to and from work....too much trouble, and i don't game enough to justify this, but man....if i had some extra cash laying around, i'd soooOOo jump on this....sigh....
Thanx OP...just pulled the trigger! With those specs and the upgrade possibilities, that price just can't be beat, Buy.com, reconditioned or otherwise.
what the heck, ordered one just for fun!
Does anyone know how good the warranty is for this reconditioned laptop?
I want to know 2.
dancingboy said:Does anyone know how good the warranty is for this reconditioned laptop?
agreed. I'm using the 22" desktop with 1680X1050, so actually u get more pixcles per square inch on this 17".
dealmaster00 said:nietsni3 said:the screen resolution is a little lowI have a 17" laptop w/1440x900 screen and let me tell you it's not that low.
Great deal OP!
Thought the same thing, ordered one too. Thanks OP.
genisys said:what the heck, ordered one just for fun!
I just came across a thread on slickdeals about this while browsing for tweaks on this thing... so to begin with....
I'll mention the deal on there was posted about 4hrs before mine, so even though I stumbled upong it on Buy.com myself, I'll give them some credit for posting first before someone gets their panties in a wad about it.
In that thread, some people say 90 days, and 1 person posted that they verified it was a factory refurb and not Buy.com refurb/customer return, and that the warranty is 1yr. I still dont see anything firm though. At either rate, another reason to use a good CC.
About the cpu....it looks like these will take the current penryns. From a quick search, looks like eBay of all places is where to pick up one of those. I see T8100's as low as $140, up to the T9300's as low as $250. These are for bare cpu's/pulls so not all that common, but significantly cheaper then boxed, and even the boxed seem to be cheaper on there compared to Newegg and the like so far. Assuming the laptop ships and is decent, I think I will pick up a T9300 for it after giving it a few weeks to make sure nothing is gunna go right away and have to be sent back for repair/replace/return.
Etch said:I just came across a thread on slickdeals about this while browsing for tweaks on this thing... so to begin with....
I'll mention the deal on there was posted about 4hrs before mine, so even though I stumbled upong it on Buy.com myself, I'll give them some credit for posting first before someone gets their panties in a wad about it.
In that thread, some people say 90 days, and 1 person posted that they verified it was a factory refurb and not Buy.com refurb/customer return, and that the warranty is 1yr. I still dont see anything firm though. At either rate, another reason to use a good CC.
About the cpu....it looks like these will take the current penryns. From a quick search, looks like eBay of all places is where to pick up one of those. I see T8100's as low as $140, up to the T9300's as low as $250. These are for bare cpu's/pulls so not all that common, but significantly cheaper then boxed, and even the boxed seem to be cheaper on there compared to Newegg and the like so far. Assuming the laptop ships and is decent, I think I will pick up a T9300 for it after giving it a few weeks to make sure nothing is gunna go right away and have to be sent back for repair/replace/return.
Not sure it matters about credit in this case. I, and every other Buy.com email subscriber, got an email advertising this deal early this morning. 10s of thousands of people saw the deal regardless of whether it was posted on SD before FW. I suspect they sold out in the first few hours but maybe not.
There are NO credit cards that cover extended warranties on refurbished items.
damn, this is a sexy deal. i've been in the market for a 17" laptop with a nice screen.
generally speaking, how do you guys feel about refurb laptops? i think a laptop is a sum of its parts... so if say a video card was defective, they'll replace the laptop with a new one which makes the computer almost like a used or brand new one.
Etch said:About the cpu....it looks like these will take the current penryns. From a quick search, looks like eBay of all places is where to pick up one of those. I see T8100's as low as $140, up to the T9300's as low as $250. These are for bare cpu's/pulls so not all that common, but significantly cheaper then boxed, and even the boxed seem to be cheaper on there compared to Newegg and the like so far. Assuming the laptop ships and is decent, I think I will pick up a T9300 for it after giving it a few weeks to make sure nothing is gunna go right away and have to be sent back for repair/replace/return.
the CPU is kind of a turn off for me, but for the price it's still a good deal. how hard is it to replace in a laptop? if a t8100 only costs me an extra $100 (probably less because i can eBay the current cpu), i think it's still a fairly hot deal.
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