How low can laptop prices go?
15.4″ dual-core Intel laptop from Lenovo for $330. This is better than the black Friday deals from last year. And since I don’t feel like standing in line for 30 hours, I might just grab one of these as a gift for someone.
Update – I got one of the last units before Fry’s closed. Mom needed a laptop.
The specs include a GS45 graphics chipset and a Pentium dual-core T4200 operating at 2.0 GHz, 35mm package, and 35W TDP. The stock OS is loaded with crapware as usual, but I’m installing from scratch so it should run extremely well after I’m done. Based on the stock install, it appears the laptop can stretch to 4 hours idle with wireless off and minimum brightness (which is not that dim and perfectly usable on an airplane), but I need to test it on movie playback mode. I am hoping it will get close to 3 hours battery. If not, I’ll try running RMclock on it to see if I can underclock and undervolt it to get more battery life.
I could have sworn not to long ago I spotted a 15″ or larger laptop for $298.00 at Wal*mart
If I still lived near a fry’s, I’d jump on it, but the closest one is 6 hours away….
Excellent question: How low can laptop prices go?
As cheap as cheap people as who buy them but not any cheaper. Cheap people are cheap. They will throw windows 7 parties just to get something for free. You cannot get any cheaper than free. Army of cheap deserves the cheap hardware and software they get. CHEAP. You want it for cheap and you get it. Why do these cheap people still complain about what cheap stuff they get? Buying the entire world of technology is not possible for a dollar or two. So pay your dollar or two and be happy. You got your cheap stuff. Now, deal with it in silence because you paid next to nothing for it. Stop bothering the rest of the world. They paid their fair share. For their money they get quality hardware, an AMAZING OS and less security gaps the size of a black hole. So while you “researchers” and “security experts” video taping each other and get excited, let the rest of the world get on with life instead of cheap Windows 7 parties. I think this should make things clear enough. You would be happier video taping one another at a cheap Windows 7 party, I do not think anyone is charging for cover.
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Forgive the little grammatical errors as I get heated up about cheap buyers.
Geister, it’s not your grammatical errors that needs to be forgiven. It’s the fact that you went off on a tangential rampage against Windows that needs to be forgiven.
Forgive me father for I have sinned. But you are still cheap. Unfortunately, the OS you happen to defend with your life, happens to be more expensive than your hardware you are trying to buy. And that hardware is also a cheap piece of crap. Enjoy. But please shut up and do not complain. Misery loves company.
“But you are still cheap. Unfortunately, the OS you happen to defend with your life, happens to be more expensive than your hardware you are trying to buy.”
And this is where the ABM trolls lose all sense of reality. Do you honestly believe Windows costs more than the hardware it is sold on? In all likelihood, no more than $50 of this system is going to Microsoft. For netbooks it’s even lower, and people generally prefer to pay for the system that works than an OS that doesn’t work for them. And by “work” I mean it doesn’t run the applications they want it to run in the same way.