brokedude said:Is the recovery CD recommended? It cost $19. Thanks.

I didn't get it...I read on the other tread refering to the same deal that you can burn your own from the hard drive.

jdixon said:To save time for others, here's what's gonna happen after you apply coupon in cart:
"We have compared the coupon submitted to the available instant savings and applied the best offer. Promotion rules allow only the coupon or instant savings to be applied to any item."

So best possible notebook deal for NON-DISCOUNTED price of $999 is about $620 + tax;
or for desktop NON-DISCOUNTED at $799 is about $480 + tax.

Here is sample math using AZ (where I live). Hope this helps.

Notebook NON-DISCOUNTED price of $999:

=$999
-$300 (less HP 30% coupon)
=$699
+$50 (plus tax, for me in AZ is +$49.65 or 7.1%)
=$749
-$50 (less PP 20% up to $50)
=$699
-$35 (less FC 5%, which comes out to about -$34.95 for me)
=$665

Desktop NON-DISCOUNTED price of $799:

=$799
-$240 (less HP 30% coupon)
=$559
+$40 (plus tax, for me in AZ is +$39.71 or 7.1%)
=$599
-$50 (less PP 20% up to $50)
=$549
-$27 (less FC 5%, which comes out to about -$27.45 for me)
=$522

Good prices imho, but I'm gonna pass on the tx1000z tablet. I can get a ThinkPad X61 for about the same price (about $825, tablet capability is nice but a perk; -1.5 pounds is more important).

What is FC? Is that Fatwallet Cash? Can you get both Paypal and Fatwallet Cash?
If it is not FatWallet Cash Back please let me know.

Thank you

Also, on the dv9500t I ordered last night, there's a nice change in upgrades.

Last night a 128 MB video card was upgraded free, but the 256 MB was $99 more. Today the 128 is still included, but the 256MB is only $26 more.

On the other hand, the 2 GB RAM was free yesterday and is $50 now, so it's close. Still about $25 in favor of today though.

To make it better today, the Free HDD upgrade (from 160 GB to 250 dual drive) and the free upgrade to Lightscribe are really awesome.

I'm going to talk to them about updating my order.

Edit: They must have tinkered with the prices some. Keeping the same specs and taking advantage of the new deals, the price is $119.56 more. Given yesterday's config, I should be adding $76 (2 GB RAM upgrade, 256 MB video card upgrade) but saving $15 (new free LS upgrade), bringing the new total to $61 more. It's close to double that, and I don't know why, other than they must have changed something.

Is this deal dead? Coupon's not working on checkout for me at all...

Im trying it right now as well--says invalid coupon.

My wife REALLY wants a laptop for Xmas--help?

mccreal said:Just curious Jdixon- Where can you get a Thinkpad X61 tablet pc for $825? (As opposed to the HP1000x) I've never seen a price like that new.
Sorry for delayed response--just got back from hiking. Use fw Lenovo link:

Base Thinkpad X61:

=$1024
-$205 (less Lenovo 20% coupon)
=$819
+$58 (plus tax, for me in AZ is +$58.15 or 7.1%)
=$877
-$53 (less FC 6%, which comes out to about -$52.63 for me)
=$824

(I also get another -1% on my credit card.)

Of course, the CPU upgrade, bluetooth, battery upgrade are all good deals right now (don't think they add more than about $70.)

johntniman said:Last night a 128 MB video card was upgraded free, but the 256 MB was $99 more. Today the 128 is still included, but the 256MB is only $26 more.

[...] other than they must have changed something.

It's the video card. Notice you can downgrade it to save $99, you couldn't do that yesterday.

Does anyone know if it is possible to use the so-called instant rebate and 30% coupon together?

Does anyone know how much heavier does the 12-cell battery weights as compared to the 6-cell? TIA~

Anyone get an order confirmation email yet? I got the paypal email stating they took the money out of my account and an email from HP saying they will update me on order status when I first ordered but nothing else....