John H. wrote in
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Am considering this laptop for my wife's birthday in a couple weeks. Best
Buy has it on sale for $999. I'll add another gig of RAM and router.

http://tinyurl.com/59yons

Thoughts?


Too much....Buy a Gateway and get more computer for half the price.

On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:29:00 +0000, Larry wrote:

John H. wrote in
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Am considering this laptop for my wife's birthday in a couple weeks. Best
Buy has it on sale for $999. I'll add another gig of RAM and router.

http://tinyurl.com/59yons

Thoughts?


Too much....Buy a Gateway and get more computer for half the price.

Too late. What does Gateway have that's better for $500?

John H. wrote in
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On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:29:00 +0000, Larry wrote:

John H. wrote in
m:

Am considering this laptop for my wife's birthday in a couple weeks.
Best Buy has it on sale for $999. I'll add another gig of RAM and
router.

http://tinyurl.com/59yons

Thoughts?


Too much....Buy a Gateway and get more computer for half the price.

Too late. What does Gateway have that's better for $500?


http://www.buy.com/prod/gateway-m-67...duo-processor-
t5450-3072-mb-250/q/loc/101/208033962.html

$1300 computer, refurbished, for $579. This isn't a laptop, it's a
mainframe in a laptop case....an amazing machine.

I like refurb'd computers because their parts are already burned in. Any
failures have ALREADY happened and the REFURB shop has already replaced
them. They are better than new....

read the reviews....there's 57 of them at Best Buy, alone and it gets over
4 stars out of 5.

Computers this fast should come with seatbelts....(c;

"Larry" wrote in message
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I like refurb'd computers because their parts are already burned in. Any
failures have ALREADY happened and the REFURB shop has already replaced
them. They are better than new....



You make a good point. Most failures in electronic devices will happen in
the initial hours of operation.
After that, they are usually good for the long haul.

Eisboch

"Larry" wrote in message
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John H. wrote in
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On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:29:00 +0000, Larry wrote:

John H. wrote in
:

Am considering this laptop for my wife's birthday in a couple weeks.
Best Buy has it on sale for $999. I'll add another gig of RAM and
router.

http://tinyurl.com/59yons

Thoughts?


Too much....Buy a Gateway and get more computer for half the price.

Too late. What does Gateway have that's better for $500?


http://www.buy.com/prod/gateway-m-67...duo-processor-
t5450-3072-mb-250/q/loc/101/208033962.html

$1300 computer, refurbished, for $579. This isn't a laptop, it's a
mainframe in a laptop case....an amazing machine.

I like refurb'd computers because their parts are already burned in. Any
failures have ALREADY happened and the REFURB shop has already replaced
them. They are better than new....

read the reviews....there's 57 of them at Best Buy, alone and it gets over
4 stars out of 5.

Computers this fast should come with seatbelts....(c;

For XP laptop, I like AMD X2. Call me nuts but like them a lot.

On Aug 3, 12:29*am, Larry wrote:
John H. wrote :

Am considering this laptop for my wife's birthday in a couple weeks. Best
Buy has it on sale for $999. I'll add another gig of RAM and router.

http://tinyurl.com/59yons

Thoughts?

Too much....Buy a Gateway and get more computer for half the price.

Gateway, nothing but a re-badged eMachine.

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On Aug 3, 12:29 am, Larry wrote:
John H. wrote :

Am considering this laptop for my wife's birthday in a couple weeks. Best
Buy has it on sale for $999. I'll add another gig of RAM and router.
http://tinyurl.com/59yons
Thoughts?
Too much....Buy a Gateway and get more computer for half the price.

Gateway, nothing but a re-badged eMachine.

I purchased a Gateway desktop, after buying a lemon from Dell. It has
a AMD dual core, with similar CPU speed to the Dell, but the Dell ran
slower than my old machine and the Gateway was blazing fast. Gateway
also limited the number of "crapware" they preinstalled on the computer.
Dell was loaded with the stuff. I think it is about 2 yrs old,
without any problems, so if it really is a eMachine, I am still happy.

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