I paid this much for my Envy 17 w/Blu-Ray, 1080p screen, etc last fall....

Merry Christmas to me! My whole fricken family has been sick the last day and a half, pretty much ruining Christmas, but to my delight I was able to snag my 1st Christmas Bag'O Crap and and save Christmas for me! Thanks Woot! And Merry Christmas to all!

Got a hidden Crap! Will post pics when it arrives. EVERYONE should be posting pics, that is what makes it so much fun :-)

Merry Christmas Woot, thanks again!

I love all the people who are comparing this deal to the same model machine...with COMPLETELY different hardware on the inside. It doesnt matter if it has the same case...

This is a good deal, period. I configured the same machine with the same hardware on HP's website and it came to $1588 before shipping. They threw in a $250 rebate, and it still comes to almost 60% of the cost.

Wooooohooooooooo!! elusive Bag I have finally gotten thee!! After four years I can hold my head up high and proclaim Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!!! :0)

FYI woot!, contrary to your product specifications, HD+ corresponds to 1600 x 900 and not 1366 x 768. The latter would be just HD.

No Three Wise Men showed up early this morning, but in a few days, a gift more coveted than an olympic gold medal shall arrive via smartpost. A Ho-ho Santa's Bag of Coal!

qmriis wrote:HP build quality is The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), and so is their customer service.

They have charged me for parts that they should have replaced for free, and have refused to fix faulty hardware that was still under warranty.

Stay FAR, far away.

I will never buy another HP laptop for this very reason. They thought I spilled water on the keyboard when I sent in the computer for repair (their water sensors are notoriously wonky), so they summarily voided the warranty and wanted $700 for repair. Reading online, this seems like a common practice from these jerks.

I demanded they ship the unit back. They really are sacks of crap, kind of what Santa delivered earlier this morning.

I got a Bounty of Christmas! My 7th Bag overall!

Price is a joke......can find comparable or better laptops than an HP on numerous sites particularly Amazon or even eBay!

I thought this might be the time we'd finally see a Kids.Woot BeeOC.

Anyway, still pleased to get a regular one.

Thanks Woot...

And Happy Chanukah to all.

Will this arrive in time for Christmas?

jrwhitfield wrote:YES! That 30 minutes of 503 errors paid off! Let's hope there is something better than the last Burgandy Olfactory Center I received which was truly a Bag of Coal!

Ive been wooting for a long time, and never got a Burgandy Olfactory Center never.


I have no beef with woot, but dangit guys... I feel left out on the Burgandy Olfactory Center joy.

I guess this is the official Christmas Burgandy Olfactory Center thread? I got one! Noticed the link right away. Had to use the wine server to get one. I can't wait to see what Santa brings me in my stocking of crap!! :D

Bruhaha1234 wrote:Got a hidden Crap! Will post pics when it arrives. EVERYONE should be posting pics, that is what makes it so much fun :-)

Merry Christmas Woot, thanks again!

What's the point? After the first picture is posted, everyone else can just copy & paste...

I think this looks like a pretty good deal. I think you'll be hard pressed to find something this size with an i5 processor, 6 GB of ram and most importantly a SSD. If I didn't already have an XPS 14 I would pick this one up.

Now the usual cycle begins...


The Phases of the Bag of Crap (according to DrGandalf):

Phase 1: The discussion of getting vs. not getting the Bag of Crap, with the usual reference to the cursed bots, Woot's horrible servers, and related.

Phase 2: The discussion of when will Woot finally ship the Bags, and did you get your tracking number, and the creation of the spreadsheet.

Phase 3: The discussion of how much the packages are predicted to weigh, how big they are, how Smartpost is sending them all around the country, and whether they are arriving early, late, or maybe never, and how to find out all the tracking information.

Phase 4: The revealing of the contents of the much awaited Bags of Crap, with much hooting and Wooting by those that are happy, some grumbling by those that are not, but with most folks happy that they got to play the game no matter what they got. Plus, the great hunt for The Letter!

Phase 4a: The waiting for and the revealing of the contents of the POC (Pallette of Crap) that the recipients of The Letter receive.

drgandalf wrote:

Now the usual cycle begins...


The Phases of the Bag of Crap (according to DrGandalf):

Phase 1: The discussion of getting vs. not getting the Bag of Crap, with the usual reference to the cursed bots, Woot's horrible servers, and related.
Most impressive statistics for a fellow Wooter. I bow to you this day, sir.

Phase 2: The discussion of when will Woot finally ship the Bags, and did you get your tracking number, and the creation of the spreadsheet.

Phase 3: The discussion of how much the packages are predicted to weigh, how big they are, how Smartpost is sending them all around the country, and whether they are arriving early, late, or maybe never, and how to find out all the tracking information.

Phase 4: The revealing of the contents of the much awaited Bags of Crap, with much hooting and Wooting by those that are happy, some grumbling by those that are not, but with most folks happy that they got to play the game no matter what they got. Plus, the great hunt for The Letter!

Phase 4a: The waiting for and the revealing of the contents of the POC (Pallette of Crap) that the recipients of The Letter receive.

Most impressive statistics for a fellow Wooter. I bow to you this day, sir.

Nice price for a $1200 machine that has not found its way to bm stores yet so price will start to drop. Wished they charged a few dollars more for the i7 chip and it would have been a smokin deal. The i5 chip doesn't do it for me.

I've had the Envy 17 for about six months. It's a nicely built computer with a good looking screen. The mousepad is functional, but most certainly not the best I've ever used. I usually use a wireless mouse (the Microsoft Arc Touch) so the trackpad is not an issue for me.

The case is nice and solid and mostly fingerprint-proof which is great considering I replaced a piano black Dell fingetprint-magnet. Overall, it's a sturdy feeling metal laptop - something I really appreciate.

I have not had the issues previous posters had with HP support. The few times I've called them in years past, they accomplished what I needed from them.

Merry Wootmas to all! Ho, Ho, Ho; can't wait to see what is in my Santa's Sack of Crap!

Merry Christmas Wooters

Started Christmas at 12:00am knowing that the Bag of Coal would be hidden somewhere. I remembered last year getting tricked. Fool me once shame on Woot, fool me twice shame on me.

Got the server errors for the next 30 minutes, during that time got the server error box where I could send a note to Woot. I wished them a Merry Christmas and wished for a Bag of Coal. My wishes came true! I got the Bag of Coal, printed my receipt and went to sleep with a smile on my face. Hours later opened up a box from my wife and received the Woot Hoodie I wanted. What a great Christmas so far!

Thanks Woot!

I even had time to create an account for my Wife and get a second one. Merry Christmas to me.....and my Wife I suppose!

It's tough typing with a cold...

jmbunkin wrote:Hey how about that COMPUTER Woot has today !!

Didn't get a crap then?

Pufferfishy wrote:
At least it's dead-center on the laptop - my current high-end laptop has the touchpad offset to the left for some unknown reason, and it's amazing how hard it is, even after a year, to easily "center" on it....

I assume you have a numpad on your laptop?

The touchpads are always centered. They are just centered to the middle of the keyboard and not the laptop.

Imagine if you were typing and the touchpad was under your palm while doing so. You would be clicking everywhere and your document would never get finished.

The touchpad is in the middle of this computer because there is no numpad to offset the keyboard.

I am in for my first Christmas Burgandy Olfactory Center after all of these years!!!!! Thanks Woot Merry Merry Happy Happy

I tried for 35 minutes on two browses to get only 503 errors and woot server messages. Then sold out

First Christmas crap I haven't got in a long time :'(

Ya got me! Good job WOOT! I got in immediately and had thoughts of a lump of coal in my stocking. Who in the hell has $800 left after a vigorous shopping season? Amazon - I thought.
I cam back a minute (maybe 30 sec) and the server was jammed.
Oh Oh! Somethings wrong here. So this morning I found the "bag". It was empty of course. I'll never doubt you again.
Merry Christmas to all.

rlj1010 wrote:I thought this might be the time we'd finally see a Kids.Woot BeeOC.

Anyway, still pleased to get a regular one.

Thanks Woot...

And Happy Chanukah to all.

The past couple of Burgandy Olfactory Center#39;s have essentially been from kids.woot... They've all been loaded with toys..

Heres a good review:
http://reviews.cnet.com/hp-envy-14-review

Bruhaha1234 wrote:Got a hidden Crap! Will post pics when it arrives. EVERYONE should be posting pics, that is what makes it so much fun :-)

Merry Christmas Woot, thanks again!

I used to post pics of my hauls before Woot was aquired by Amazon, back when pics were worth taking. I recall one of my pre-Wootazon Burgandy Olfactory Center having 15 Sansas (13 working) and a GPS system. Another of my pre-Wooterzon Burgandy Olfactory Center was a Philips Streamium music center ($600+ MSRP). Haven't seen anything like that since. Thanks Amazon... :-(

rafka1225 wrote:Finally I was ready for the Christmas Burgandy Olfactory Center I updated my account and was refreshing the Woot homepage every 5 seconds to make sure I got one. Thanks for a useless $800 piece o'crap instead. Today is my birthday as well as Christmas. You've disappointed both Jesus and me. Thanks for nothing Woot!

You do know the link for the Burgandy Olfactory Center was in the description, like it is quite often, right?

Yea!!! Got myself a Bag 'O Coal for my birthday today! Thought I was 503'd out but got the e-mail confirmation!

Congrats to all and to all a good crap!

♪ You'd better watch out,
♫ You'd better not cry!
♪ You'd better not pout,
♫ I'm telling you why!
♪ Bags of C.R.A.P. are coming to town!

♫ Woot sees you when you're sleeping,
♪ Woot knows when you're awake!
♫ Woot knows when you've been bad or good,
♪ So come buy stuff every day!

SING IT WITH ME!

♫ Oooooooh! You'd better watch out...♪♫♪♫

Anyone know how HP laptops compare to their desktops. I'm thinking of replacing my older Asus laptop that is starting to show signs of it's age. I had an HP desktop a few years back and despised it with every fiber of my being. It was so slow and clunky even though the specs said it should have been top of the line for a budget PC at the time. That HP desktop actually drove me to a Mac Mini (I said I'd never buy a Mac due to price). I'd still like to keep my laptop windows based though.

I've been wooting my wooter for over 5 years without getting lucky enough to snag a bag of cherries... but last night i snagged my first. Thanks Woot. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

First step on any new HP is to reinstall Windows without all the CRAPware. This thing is full of crap; I know that because it says HP on it. I don't know how you do that legally today since you have to activate windows. A restore from the disks will bring back the crap so you have to buy or install a pirated copy of Windows on it.

Other than that it may be a good machine. I couldn't get past the HP label. SSD is nice, though. You could put linux on it if you are a geek, for most people, you need Windows unfortunately.

jccdlc wrote:Merry Christmas Wooters

Started Christmas at 12:00am knowing that the Bag of Coal would be hidden somewhere. I remembered last year getting tricked. Fool me once shame on Woot, fool me twice shame on me.

Actually, last year, there was no secret hidden link. It appeared right at midnight for everyone...trackers included.

But it was the year before last, where they also did the hidden link.... I still have it bookmarked!

http://www.woot.com/special.aspx?k=nice