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Toshiba Satellite 1.5GHz Celeron Notebook $500 AR @ BestBuy from 12/15
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ScrapSilicon
Lifer
Toshiba rebate is showing as $50 in the actual BB sales circular..
I got mine in Pittsburgh got there at 8:45 and was 5th one there. 1st in the door and 1st checked out. By the time I left all 14 they had were gone. I bought the $199.99 3 year extended warranty. I usually don't by extended warranties, but I seems reasonable to me to get it just for the replacement of the battery. I know for sure that I will get at least 2 batteries out of it and I'll make sure that just before the 3 years is up to get a new battery so that it will last me another couple years. The free network card was a nice bonus also. I didn't let them open the box and had to prove the CSR wrong about the restocking fee if the box is still factory sealed. He also wanted to charge me 249.99 for the warranty even though the sale price was below $1000.00, but again I was right and he was wrong! I picked up the Compaq 906US last week for $749.99 but it is still sitting here unopened. Anyone have thoughts on which is better. I would rather have the AMD XP over the Celeron and the CDRW is a nice plus with the Compaq but I don't know if both those things are worth another $250 dollars plus another extra $50.00 for the extended warranty on laptops over $1000. All I really want to do use the internet from my easy chair and DVD watching for my son while on road trips. Any thoughts?
Props to those that got in on probably "the cheapest laptop of the year deal". For less than $500 you can hardly complain. We all like a hot deal. Toshiba had a problem with a DIFFERENT MODEL (#5005-S507) that has the 1.1GHz PIII. For those that missed the Oct. issue of MaximumPC , page 20 under "Watchdog" had an article about a MODEL (#5005-S507) Toshiba laptop that experienced lock-ups and overheating issues. That model is said to have a 1.1GHz PIII. The problems were so bad that there has been a class action suit filed in the Central District of the Los Angeles Superior Court. The hot deal at BB and CompUSA on laptops is xlnt. You have a completely different CPU. Just keep an eye on yours, and IF you experience any overheating/ lockup problems; (I hope that you don't, you have a different CPU) make them fix it right. More can be found on the defect contained in the 5005 Series here suit😀
wow that's not bad at all, especially if you're in need of something to take notes on ect, definitly not gaming. Tempting, but I don't really need it, hehe. If this deal is available now, I wonder what we may see in the future...
And on the BB extended warrenty thing, the employees are actually required to offer it to every customer, it's store policy, it gets really annoying really fast.
And on the BB extended warrenty thing, the employees are actually required to offer it to every customer, it's store policy, it gets really annoying really fast.
I was not able to make it to a BestBuy this morining, but I had someone else pickup this deal. The BestBuy employees offered an "optimization" charge for $19 which deletes unwanted programs and advertisements that are factory installed and check to make sure the laptop and parts are in working condition. To the regular customer, this would sound pretty good, but when I heard that they open the box just to check to make sure everything is there and charge almost $20 to do that, I couldn't believe it. I wonder if that is now considered an "open box" if the item is needed to be returned. It might get charged the 15% restocking fee, because BestBuy staff were the ones to open it!!
They also didn't offer the Linksys wireless network card to the buyer.
They also didn't offer the Linksys wireless network card to the buyer.
As rumor had it, Today's price is $999 -$300MIR -$200MIR =$499.99. I'm so happy to be in on it. Thanks for break'n the news about today's price in advance. Buying early & pricematching sure mad it easy.
Never mind the WinXp question. My other computers didn't need the disk afterall. I'm sharing internet with the laptop. I just had to figure out how to hard wire the laptop to my existing router. I have a linksys Router and it has two ports (PC & Uplink). As the manual says, you can only use one at a time. I first tried to use both ports. So once I disconneted the other port all was cool. Except for the other computer that was using the other port. I'll hardwire that computer again once I buy a wireless PCMCIA card for my laptop.
Keep the $500 laptop. If you really need a CDRW from your laptop I'm sure you can wait a while for a killer price for one of those and just make the upgrade then. I'm sure you'll end up with a better CDRW/DVD (wouldn't it be silly for you to spend ~$300+tax on this simple device today when you can have a 32XDVD player tomorrow for probably $50). Celeron's are fine. Even for gaming Celeron's aren't bad. But of coarse for gaming the graphics card is important. I would of liked to get in on a cool deal on a gaming PC but I couldn't pass this deal up. For this price I can wait another 6months or a year or two to get a gaming PC and get a far superior gaming laptop than today's best (and utilize superior shopping "intelligence" like as in this case). By then they will be integrating other stuff that we can drool (slurp...) over.
WinXp networking wizard make it seems that sometimes you need the WinXp disk for other none WinXp computers. It hasn't required it for my Win2000 machines but this is bs that the restore disks can't work on the other computers. This obviously doesn't give us a full WinXp capability. And without an A-drive or a CDRW we can't make the required utility disk for the networking wizard.
Doesn't look like my network will be requiring such a disk since it's already networking fine. I'll check to see if I can map to the other computer's A-drive to make the floppy (or CDRW), just in case I need it.
Toshiba's support people better support us and send us out any WinXP disks that we can't write ourselves. Let's try to report back to see what we can get from Toshiba's support.
sixpackdate
Member
Got mine this morning after a little travel and waiting. I'm happy, its my first laptop, and considering the options available for a cheap one, like a refurbed P2, this is cool.
I have three other power systems for heavy apps and gaming, this one I can type letters, email, do some quickbooks billing, etc., while on the couch watching football, entirely adequate. Now I need a swimming pool so I can day trade like on the commercials. That part will be expensive.
I have three other power systems for heavy apps and gaming, this one I can type letters, email, do some quickbooks billing, etc., while on the couch watching football, entirely adequate. Now I need a swimming pool so I can day trade like on the commercials. That part will be expensive.
I went today to try and buy at around 10AM. The salesman was all over me trying to sell the service plan and some accesories. And told me if I buy 4 accesories he would take 15% off their price. Well, I just checked my reciepts and he took 15% off my entire ticket. So I got the laptop for $940 because the free network card didnt ring up free and then he took the 15% off which dropped it down to $799.42. Means I got this sucker for only $299.42 after rebates!!!!!!
it's true, the laptop doesn't have a floppy drive. But who cares. I haven't used a floppy disk in months. It's really obsolete, they should come out with something to replace it after all these years.
And to get files off the computer, I plan to do a file transfer to another computer (which has a cd burner) via ethernet/router.
AG
And to get files off the computer, I plan to do a file transfer to another computer (which has a cd burner) via ethernet/router.
AG
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