mommyleah wrote:I remember when just a Blu-Ray player use to cost $449.99! Keeping that in mind, this is a steal of a Woot!

I remember when a 100 mb (YES mb) hard drive used to cost $400. What does that have to do with today?

zelgadis123 wrote:Hold off on getting a PC. There are two things coming up that are worth waiting for. 1st is the new Ivy bridge intels coming very soon, and then there is Windows 8. Both will cause large price fluctuations in the market. In 6 months time, who knows what kind of machine you can get at this price.

http://www.techpowerup.com/162606/No-quot-Ivy-Bridge-E-quot-Till-Second-Half-of-2013-Report.html

ok here is my question wide wide world of wooters.. and i sort of know the answer.. i have now.. hp G60, pentium dual core T4200 @ 2.00ghz, 3gb memory, 32 bit, vista machine. this apears to be a lot better just for the 6gb memory alone. and the price seems fine tho i dont need the blueray. have always had hp products and never really have had all that many problems tho the screen died on this one so just went out and bought a 60 dollar 20 inch monitor, it is 3 years old so just about served its purpose and will hook it up to the tv when i get a new comp. this seems like a good deal to me for the price and i guess i just need someone to reasure me that my thinking is correct. thanks

What?...no USB 3.0?

It'll last about a year. I fix computers for a living. Just the way these piles are. cheap.

zelgadis123 wrote:Hold off on getting a PC. There are two things coming up that are worth waiting for. 1st is the new Ivy bridge intels coming very soon, and then there is Windows 8. Both will cause large price fluctuations in the market. In 6 months time, who knows what kind of machine you can get at this price.

Windows 8 is largely going to be for the touchscreen market, no matter what you hear. It is clearly not better than Win 7, it is basically an upgrade of their windows cell phone OS. Yes, it can be run by a mouse and keyboard, but it is designed for touchscreen. AND we are not going to touchscreen interfaces on any device with a real keyboard and mouse anytime soon. Laptops...I don't know what the plans are, but I can say I have used tablets, cell phones, laptops and desktops and they all have their best use scenarios. The absolute best hardware you are going to get is in a desktop and they are not to the point where that will be changing anytime soon. Second best is laptop, then tablet, then cells. Windows 8 is definitely not made to optimize a desktops potential, let alone a non-touchscreen laptop. I have seen that OS in action...don't expect any effect on laptop prices because of it.

About those who are suggesting similar priced i3 laptops...do they have blu-ray? That is the thing that stands out on this laptop for the price.

sporeman wrote:ok here is my question wide wide world of wooters.. and i sort of know the answer.. i have now.. hp G60, pentium dual core T4200 @ 2.00ghz, 3gb memory, 32 bit, vista machine. this apears to be a lot better just for the 6gb memory alone. and the price seems fine tho i dont need the blueray. have always had hp products and never really have had all that many problems tho the screen died on this one so just went out and bought a 60 dollar 20 inch monitor, it is 3 years old so just about served its purpose and will hook it up to the tv when i get a new comp. this seems like a good deal to me for the price and i guess i just need someone to reasure me that my thinking is correct. thanks

This is a decent deal. The processor isn't as Dot's Poetry Corner as some people make it out to be. For the new Amazon woot this is a good deal, for the old woot it could have been about $25 cheaper. I do a fair amount of work on a laptop that isn't even as good as this one including light video editing, DVD ripping etc- this has plenty of processor power for most things. Benchmarks can be misleading, and are fine as a general guide sometimes- but realize they will not define a user experience. You won't suffer buyers remorse if you get this.

zelgadis123 wrote:http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/305869/Lenovo-G570-4334-9MU-Laptop-Computer/

For $370, the i3 CPU on this lenovo is close to 3000 passmark score, while the AMD processor on this woot machine is close to 2000.

It is also a Lenovo, which is generally a lot more reliable than HP labtops.

Just no blu ray ... So if that's a big selling point, the Lenovo won't give you everything this one has.

Can anybody else find a Windows 7 blu ray/hdmi machine for less? I'm struggling. I've been looking for a win7 home theater pc for a while, and I rarely find anything under $500. And that's usually without an OS. And definitely not a laptop. If someone knows of something better, I would love to know.

spiek wrote:http://www.techpowerup.com/162606/No-quot-Ivy-Bridge-E-quot-Till-Second-Half-of-2013-Report.html

Ivy Bridge is definitely 2012 in a matter of months. Anything else reporting it in 2013 is either factually wrong or is not accurately reporting Intel statement about Ivy Bridge's delays correctly.

I have this one. It is a great one for just about everything. I paid a little less for it at Best Buy, but would buy it again in a heartbeat. I get about 3 hours of battery life on it because I open 5 or 6 windows at time on my desktop, but the real estate that is there serves me very well even with the shortened battery life. I am not a gamer, so I can't help you there.

coolbro12389 wrote:http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1883068&CatId=4938

same price at tigerdirect

yeah, except that it's not the same price... i learned to count before I learned the internet...

I have a firewire audio interface for audio recording with my older computer that I haven't used too much but it's good.

is there a certain way I could hook it up to this laptop without loosing speed? i know there are firewire adapters out there but is there any place to put one on this laptop?

GFBurke wrote:It'll last about a year. I fix computers for a living. Just the way these piles are. cheap.

Repairmen only see the broken ones, not the ones that quietly keep working for years. It's like the old days with contact lenses, you only notice those having trouble with them.

Then there is how and where they are used.

What shipper does woot use? Can I get a tracking #?

$454 brand new other sites . No deal here, matter of fact, just do a search. Shame on you Woot

gotthumbs wrote:The i3 does not have the integrated GPU that this APU has. Check out some REAL reviews at sites like AnandTech, or TomsHardware. Intel graphics are historically BAD, bad, bad. Now look for an Intel system with Nvidia GPU....whats the cost? You pay lots more for just the Intel name. Buy what you want, but AMD has always provided me with the power I've ever needed.

My response was in response to another poster who said you can get a much faster laptop for this price, which is true, but not with all the features this one has (screen size, blu-ray, etc). I think you mistook the point of my post, I wasn't actually looking to buy a laptop with an i3 (or AMD for that matter) processer. Historically Intel has been behind the curve with integrated graphics, but their newer HD3000 series integrated graphics are not that bad.

givemethedeal wrote:$454 brand new other sites . No deal here, matter of fact, just do a search. Shame on you Woot

I think this topic has already been discussed above. Provide links to back it up, because I don't see what you're seeing in my search.

Hp was rated the least reliable manufacturer several years in a row. Not anything I would spend my money on.

Reference

http://www.pcworld.com/article/187407/reliability_and_service_technologys_most_and_least_reliable_brands.html

Dougg1985 wrote:Hp was rated the least reliable manufacturer several years in a row. Not anything I would spend my money on.

Reference

http://www.pcworld.com/article/187407/reliability_and_service_technologys_most_and_least_reliable_brands.html

From what I posted overnight:
PCMag's 2012 Readers Choice survey, where HP is in the lower rungs as usual, but not last, in satisfaction:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400793,00.asp

I purchased the HP Beats Edition with the SSD hard drive recently on WOOT and have no problem connecting to my wireless router anywhere in the house. I live in a rather large house with the main hallway being over 100' long and only lose the connection when I go to the in-law apartment which is one floor, 4 walls and 80' from the router. I also can connect with my 5 year old HP laptop so my guess that those who complain about HP connection have crappy routers.

thebigragu wrote:I have a firewire audio interface for audio recording with my older computer that I haven't used too much but it's good.

is there a certain way I could hook it up to this laptop without loosing speed? i know there are firewire adapters out there but is there any place to put one on this laptop?

The only way to get firewire on to a laptop would be to either have it come with firewire (built into the motherboard) or have a laptop with an expresscard slot and buy a firewire express card such as one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=-1&isNodeId=1&Description=expresscard+firewire
This laptop does not have either of those options. Not many laptops come with express card adapters anymore, and the ones that do are pretty expensive.

no more guessing games?

gak0090 wrote:The only way to get firewire on to a laptop would be to either have it come with firewire (built into the motherboard) or have a laptop with an expresscard slot and buy a firewire express card such as one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=-1&isNodeId=1&Description=expresscard+firewire
This laptop does not have either of those options. Not many laptops come with express card adapters anymore, and the ones that do are pretty expensive.

thank you for the thoughtful answer and link hope you have a great day/night!

thrill wrote:Windows 8 is largely going to be for the touchscreen market, no matter what you hear. It is clearly not better than Win 7, it is basically an upgrade of their windows cell phone OS. Yes, it can be run by a mouse and keyboard, but it is designed for touchscreen. AND we are not going to touchscreen interfaces on any device with a real keyboard and mouse anytime soon. Laptops...I don't know what the plans are, but I can say I have used tablets, cell phones, laptops and desktops and they all have their best use scenarios. The absolute best hardware you are going to get is in a desktop and they are not to the point where that will be changing anytime soon. Second best is laptop, then tablet, then cells. Windows 8 is definitely not made to optimize a desktops potential, let alone a non-touchscreen laptop. I have seen that OS in action...don't expect any effect on laptop prices because of it.

About those who are suggesting similar priced i3 laptops...do they have blu-ray? That is the thing that stands out on this laptop for the price.

You obviously have no idea what Windows 8 is then do you?

The Metro UI that has been used on Zune/WindowsPhone devices is only half of the OS, intended for tablet/touch interface use. You can go back to a traditional desktop-like experience, extremely similar to Win7 with some tweaks.

The price drop that is inevitable however, is more related to the Ivy Bridge CPU architecture than Windows 8.

AMD 1.9ghz dual core? I swear that's the same processor that came in a HP laptop I bought...in 2007!

coolbro12389 wrote:http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1883068&CatId=4938

same price at tigerdirect

Tiger direct is $50 more after rebate!

theguruguys wrote:I can't stand HP personally. The way they handled the hundreds of thousands of failed Nvidia chipset laptops was ridiculous. I have personally come across 14 failed laptops with the same problem. HP would fix them under warranty, sometimes more than once, then when the warranty was over (in one case two weeks after it expired) refuse to do anything about it even through it was a known design flaw and the exact same problem they fixed before under warranty.

Their all in one printer software is BY FAR the worst ever made! It weighs in at 400-600 megabytes of bloatware. Have a problem with it and good luck. I've spent more time problem solving HP All In One software than EVERY OTHER PRINTER software combined.

/rant off ;)

agreed. utter fertilizer.

Any Wooters know if these computers have started shipping yet? I'm leaving for vacation next Friday and would like to take it with me. Are these shipped snail mail? Thanks Wooters.

Any idea when these laptops are shipping?

abshoreshotmail wrote:Any Wooters know if these computers have started shipping yet? I'm leaving for vacation next Friday and would like to take it with me. Are these shipped snail mail? Thanks Wooters.

Mine hasn't just shipped...I'm posting from it now. Check in your account to see if it shipped.

I bought goods but do not see why the goods were sent to

schnoooodle wrote:Any idea when these laptops are shipping?

good question. still no shipping info as of 3/27.

Mine shipped out from Norwalk, CT on 3/21 via UPS and arrived on 3/23...have y'all received no updates at all?

Did anybody else receive a dead laptop? The screen backlight is apparently not working on the one I received. Now I have to figure out how to return it.

Still haven't received mine. So this is a vent message about interminable shipping delays. Does the post office hate APO addresses?

I purchased this laptop a few weeks ago and I am already having very serious problems with the Graphics Card. The screen flickers and all of the colors are oily.

All I use this computer for is watching movies and Itunes. I need to find assistance on how to get this repaired.

Any advice?