my current HP laptop is AMD X2 Dual Core, 1gb Ram, 8x dvd burner, 120gb HDD, Vista Premium, 15.4" bright view. I am not in the market for a new laptop but my wife is if the price is right. She said we should have bought 2 of mine when it was on sale for $600. My wifes Toshiba (which was previously mine) is solo core, 80 gb HDD, 512mb ram base I put 1gb in there after purchase, dvd burner, 15.4" brightview, XP MCE. My wife wants a new laptop one like mine, so if I were to get this Compaq for her w/ the upgrades it would be more comparable to mine. I suppose I could get the base ram and pop in a 1gb chip myself for a total of 1.5gb. We would definately want the dvd burner as she often copies stuff from her coworkers while at work. I've had to free up space on her Toshibas 80 gb and transfer some of her stored files to an external USB hard drive so I think she would find the base 60gb of the compaq not to be enough. She encodes movies and stuff so I want to get her a slightly faster processor so it finishes faster. Plus at home sometimes we have our desktops and laptops all on at the same time writing dvd's.

Since her current laptop still works but she just wants a newer one I might just wait until July 4th or the next big 3 day weekend with large sales and see what sales they have. If there is something on sale I might just give her mine and get a new one for myself. Anyway if the base specs suit your needs ~$500 shipped and taxed is a good deal. It just doesn't suit our needs.

uzibear said:BlkBimM3r said:last time I ordered a Customize to order laptop from OD shipping was about $40. The base config of $399 is a bit underconfigured for me, so if I were to take all the upgrade options (1gb ram, 80gb HDD, processor upgrade, DVD burner, and Vista Premium) thats almost $200 more w/ shipping and CA sales tax it would be almost $700. Does it come w/ BrightView? Not a bad deal after the upgrades.

i'd say it's a lousy idea; do you need any of those upgrades? i think you're being pretty silly just slamming all the upgrades on

What can you figure out from that piece of shxt? No date, no reference at all. Did you see it on official website though? I can easily modify the price to $99 from that shxt

cstring said:sam19777 said:WHY NOBODY WANT TO FIGURE OUT IF THIS DEAL IS TRUE FIRST?????

LOL didn't you read the ad? or do you want to figure out if the ad is true first?

namlook said:Questi4110 said:
Wrong...they don't do that. They run out quick so you should try to buy it ASAP (like, on Sunday) because the last deal sold out in 1-2 days because they said they were out of stock nationwide.

The last deal? Which deal was the last one?

The last deal...

I actually linked to that other thread, and gave my quick thoughts on this notebook (along with info about shipping time and costs) earlier in this thread. I guess my post got skipped over by most people because of all of springboards' [now deleted] posts and the subsequent responses.

Here are the quick points for those of you who are too lazy to go back to page 3 and read my previous post:

The "Mobile Intel 945 Express chipset family" graphics is the deal killer for me.

Green for a decent deal for a cheap laptop.

Devedander said:So what was the verdict on the Pentium M vs Core Duo... $50 isn't much money, but then again 1MB of L2 cache isn't huge either...

Seems I read a lot of review showing some signficant performance over Pentium D vs CoreDuo but maybe they were referring to desktops... and it seems these chips are being read as CoreDuos also...

Go for the upgrade man...get the true Core Duo. You'll be glad you did it.

I doubt you can have the Nvidia card in this laptop

Questi4110 said:Devedander said:So what was the verdict on the Pentium M vs Core Duo... $50 isn't much money, but then again 1MB of L2 cache isn't huge either...

Seems I read a lot of review showing some signficant performance over Pentium D vs CoreDuo but maybe they were referring to desktops... and it seems these chips are being read as CoreDuos also...

Go for the upgrade man...get the true Core Duo. You'll be glad you did it.

I agree it's worth it to move from non CoreDuo to CoreDuo but according to the screenshot earlier, the non coreduo one really is a coreduo with half L2 Cache...

Does this come with at least a 6 cell battery and if not can I upgrade it at OD?

Thank you for the deal.
Wondering if people can comment on what I should do in terms of upgrade/no upgrade if the most I would stress the CPU would be to play games like World of Warcraft - besides that most of the use will be for watching some movies and surfing/editing papers...


Thanks for the input.

i'm guessing you're wrong; WOW can play on pretty modest computers, on low settings, but still