my thanksgiving & christmas 'info' gift to all

[mr_Cash]

late edit: caution.
this may not be the best idea after-all.
please read the caution post later in this thread.



$229 new 15.4" toshiba vista laptop & cannon printer

[jwight]

Thanks! Looks like a great buy.

More Black Friday ads at: http://www.blackfriday.info/

There are some great GPS deals coming up this Friday.

[mr_Cash]

late edit: caution. this may not be the best idea after-all.
please read the caution in this thread, following this post.




this may be a little more, but a better deal than the $229 at best buy. the circuit city $299 compaq presario 1g mem, vista home premium & printer & router.

the question seems to be, if mem is epandable to 2g (?), or limited to 1g (?). if limited to only 1g, its probably best to pass on this computer. one memory vendor says this c700 series is expandable to 2g, so, thats likely the case. but verify asap, before buying if possible. this system does has 1) a faster dual core processor, vs. the slower centurion at best buy on the $229 toshiba model. 2) vista home upgrade to 'premium' (instead of 'basic'), 3) comes with 1g of mem, instead of 512meg for the best buy $229 toshiba, and 4) its mentioned often as a good looking laptop.

[mr_Cash]

... c a u t i o n ...

i noticed dell is offering supposively great (?) deals with 2g of mem, & the duo processors, for $599, yet, they are 'only loading win xp', 'not' vista. this implies, there may be significant bugs remaining in the heavy vista program, even with 2g of mem, and duo processors. vista may so big, such a mem hog, so slow, so heavy a program, that todays lower cost chip/board technology can not satisfactorily handle it yet.

... conclusion: if you already have a computer thats working ok, or don't really need a laptop, it may be prudent to simply wait to buy a laptop at next year's black friday sales, when vista bugs can be further worked out, more streamlining can be added to vista, and more powerful/lower priced new tech comes along that can better handle the memory hogging vista.

... it may be best, for this years christmas gifts, if in tech, to be something small, like an under $25 or so mem upgrade, or an under $20 flash drive memory usb plug-in bullet (if needed ?), or just skip computers and tech entirely this year, and buy other non-computer gifts.

... or if you have no computer, and need something, go ahead, cautiously, with one of two computers mentioned in this thread, and be prepared to possibly remove vista, and load up xp, which would give good power for most common non-game uses. you will have to check, if or how to get the xp for no charge, if you take delivery of a vista product. i'm not up to date on the vista to xp cost, copyright requirements, special reload procedures, etc., if any.

.. merry Christmas ..

[sisyphus]

Or buy a Mac...

[gamernotwatcher]

It means that the Dell system was developed with XP, Tested with XP, QA'd on XP, for $599 you are buying a Dell dated 2007 (early)

[DaveInTexas]

Windows VISTA is Junk IMHO!!!

I have it on my computer and it is super slow. I had XP before and wished I had never bothered with Vista.

Vista = Viruses, Infections, Spamware, Trojans and Adware

One thing you have to check on the fine print is if the rebate requires you to buy a year of internet service from a certain ISP.

I wished I had bought a Mac.

[SmartShanna]

Once you go Mac, you never go back

[ifishcat]

for the shopping bargan hunters at large the following two websites are great jumpping off places...

fatwallet

slickdeals

though ifn you are real savy, then this is old news, in which case, got another good link?

(Mr Cash, in like holiday manner, the above offerings to you )

[propes]

As an IT professional, who works with Windows all day long.... go with a Mac.