take out the HP bloatware and you should be left with a nice solitare machine.

Shucks, its not the Willie and Katie Royal Edition. Oh well...

Solid machine ... if you run the pc decrapifier first.

Does this have enough get-up-and-go for editing with Photoshop Elements?

Apple MacBook Pro MC725LL/A Laptop is a game monster.

Great price for the specs, but.... Its an HP. The lowest rated of all laptops these days. Have 5 bad Hp's sitting behind me all within 3 years of age. Must buy the longest extended warranty you can find with this, and expect downtime in the future when you send it in for repairs...

a driving monkey! now he can take my flying monkey anywhere he wants to go.

Don't expect to play any 3D games on it with that impressive "Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M".

Solitaire should play just fine though.

Refurbed walmart model....

As the doctor says. Basically, run...

Amazon
has it for $419 free shipping.
But you get 30 days to return it.

Kn1nJa wrote:Solid machine ... if you run the pc decrapifier first.

Where do I find a good decrapifier, or is this strictly a manual process?

Passmark ranking of 1551 to compare with other processors.

Its dead center of their 'high midrange chart'.

theguruguys wrote:Great price for the specs, but.... Its an HP. The lowest rated of all laptops these days. Have 5 bad Hp's sitting behind me all within 3 years of age. Must buy the longest extended warranty you can find with this, and expect downtime in the future when you send it in for repairs...

I bought a 3 year "at home" warranty and I had to mail in my machine when it broke. I would never buy another HP

theguruguys wrote:Great price for the specs, but.... Its an HP. The lowest rated of all laptops these days. Have 5 bad Hp's sitting behind me all within 3 years of age. Must buy the longest extended warranty you can find with this, and expect downtime in the future when you send it in for repairs...

I can't attest for HP's consumer models, but my experience with their business models has been awesome.

I bought a 2710p from their small business line (and small business support) in 2007 as I was getting ready for school, and I've abused it. Since it's a tablet, it gets taken to class with me *every day*. It's been dropped. It's shared my backpack with books, etc. It's still going strong. And support has always been great whether its been replacing a stick of memory that went bad or replacing the keyboards that I seem to go through on a yearly basis.

http://www.compusa.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=7189070&SRCCODE=LSCMPUSA&cm_mmc_o=-ddCjC1bELltzywCjC-d2CjCdwwp&AffiliateID=dlUPo6w0KBI-kMP7hear_I40fmleSgu6gg

Not that great of a deal....

NO YOU CAN'T PLAY GAMES ON THIS. Overall not a bad price for 17in computer to get you online.

Dual core? Quad core or no core, I say.

I want multi-cores so bad. Imma build my own!

theguruguys wrote:Great price for the specs, but.... Its an HP. The lowest rated of all laptops these days. Have 5 bad Hp's sitting behind me all within 3 years of age. Must buy the longest extended warranty you can find with this, and expect downtime in the future when you send it in for repairs...

SquareTrade, my good sir! It's even on the bottom of the page!

enriquei wrote:I can't attest for HP's consumer models, but my experience with their business models has been awesome.

Both Dell and HP have the highest quality increase of all the mainstream companies when going from their 'Home' to 'Business' products.

And to whoever posted about decrapifier, HP is one of the worst at overloading your system with crapware. The last one I setup took almost 5 minutes to just get to the windows screen on 'first boot'...

What type of chipset does the wireless card use, and is it onboard or a replaceable mini PCI Express card?

Bought one off Woot weeks ago for my little brother. He's a freshman in high school and it has enough computing power to do his homework, surf the web and play his favorite online game, league of legends. No complaints for the price, which is the same as this one.

cytation wrote:I bought a 3 year "at home" warranty and I had to mail in my machine when it broke. I would never buy another HP

You should have bought a Squaretrade warranty. It would have been cheaper and they would have let you keep the laptop

bmw66x wrote:SquareTrade, my good sir! It's even on the bottom of the page!

Of course, that puts the price around $425 where we can get a new machine with similar specs and factory warranty that is just as long.

4500M video card review

Basically a decent laptop if you don't intend to do much gaming on it. According to notebookcheck it will run warcraft...barely.

i24u wrote:NO YOU CAN'T PLAY GAMES ON THIS. Overall not a bad price for 17in computer to get you online.

Sure ya can. Some examples:
Minecraft
Star Craft 1
Descent: Free Space, Free Space 2
Any arcade game
Empire Earth
Civilization 3 (Maybe 4)
Galactic Civilizations 2
Sim City 2000
Half-Life 1
Team Fortress Classic
*light* WoW
KOTOR I and II
Killing Floor (probably)
CS 1.6

Pretty much anything pre-2005.

Arrrrgh! Such fustration here! The first laptop woot has had in a while and I had unexpected bills that sapped my writing/laptop fund dry.

Ah well.

Hopefully you guys will be posting another one of these suckers at the next woot-off, mayhaps?

cheroke55 wrote:You should have bought a Squaretrade warranty. It would have been cheaper and they would have let you keep the laptop

Has SquareTrade changed that much for the better? About 4 years I used them for three items, one being a cell phone I bought on eBay which went bad after a month. I never got anything out of SquareTrade, they fought me all the way and claimed it was 'normal wear and tear' the the keypad stopped responding. I went online and read TONS of people with similar stories to mine.

I would love to hear testimonials that they are much easier to work with now and have changed?

How does this computer compare to today's Woot?

So yeah... I'm pretty much computer Lamuellan. Need some advice. (Yes, I realize "Lamuellan" isn't PC).

I home-school my 7 yr old twins and just need a machine that will work well for their online classes. We dont game or need anything fancy. Good deal? Or should I keep looking?




... Yes, pun intended.

marn161 wrote:So yeah... I'm pretty much computer Lamuellan. Need some advice. (Yes, I realize "Lamuellan" isn't PC).

I home-school my 7 yr old twins and just need a machine that will work well for their online classes. We dont game or need anything fancy. Good deal? Or should I keep looking?




... Yes, pun intended.

Thanks for changing my word Woot! Now I really seem re******!

Unique616 wrote:How does this computer compare to today's Woot?

I'd tke the new gateway w/o question

Intel GMA fails the deal for me.

As for HP reliablity, I've had mixed experiences. I bought a m9400t with a Q6700 and 9600 GSO in 08. Poor case design caused my 9600 to fail from overheating (ran at 120 C + while under load). I've since replaced the stock case with an Antec 300 and a new heatsink, and it runs at about half the heat on the processor. My dad had a HP internal removable HDD fail as well. Other than that, good experiences.

I bought this as a 'transportable' machine. 17in is too large to be portable.

How do I add the square trade warrantee?

marn161 wrote:So yeah... I'm pretty much computer Lamuellan. Need some advice. (Yes, I realize "Lamuellan" isn't PC).

I home-school my 7 yr old twins and just need a machine that will work well for their online classes. We dont game or need anything fancy. Good deal? Or should I keep looking?

... Yes, pun intended.

Yes, this computer will do very nicely for your specific purpose. The 17" screen will also be nice as you won't be squinting to see the screen like you would on a similarly priced 10" netbook.

Would this be tolerable for editing HD video with Sony Vegas 9? My current PC just laughs at me (works ok with standard def)

Nobody said anything about the monkey yet? I feel like we always talk about the picture more than the product... except this time.

I haven't been keeping up with computers lately, so some one please school me:
I plan on buying a GoPro HD camcorder soon. Would this laptop be any good for editing HD video?

shakensparco wrote:Monkey masks get you out of tickets

Did you mean to post this over at Shirt.Woot? lolz