[jojo16]

Hi, I'm going to university next year, and I will most likely be needing a laptop with my schoolwork. I'm a movie watcher/music listener as well so a multimedia laptop is a plus as well. I recently eyed this laptop on bestbuy canada (I live in Canada) but just in case some of you are american. xD ...anyways...and I think that this laptop is very good.

4 gigs of ram
320 gb of space
I know that the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M is maybe lacking a little in graphics, but I'm not your typical guy that likes hardcore gaming.

I think that maybe the biggest cons about this laptop (in my opinion) is that it's 1.) Refurbished and 2.) No HDMI port.

here;s the page: http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.a...=&langid=EN

What do you guys think? Should I get this? It's now $100 dollars off from the regular price. I remember clearly that it was only 50 bucks off last week. Now they're having this "summer" sale. Remember I'm mainly using this laptop only for multimedia/entertainment and university purposes.

Hope I can get some good feedback! (Please don't ramble on about how crappy the graphics card is, I don't care for gaming) This sale ends on May 21st, 2009.

[awdark]

I wouldn't go for it simply because it has a 90 day warranty. You might say one year isn't necessary, but at 9 months my laptop's screen filled with dust and I had to send it in.

Canada doesn't quite have the same deals as we get in the us though :[

[jojo16]

I wouldn't go for it simply because it has a 90 day warranty. You might say one year isn't necessary, but at 9 months my laptop's screen filled with dust and I had to send it in.

Canada doesn't quite have the same deals as we get in the us though :[

Well..setting the warranty issue aside?
I just want to know the value for the laptop and if it's a good price. =)

[awdark]

I don't know the canadian prices, I just generalize it as more expensive.

At 550, I think you can buy a new one if you look for a sale. Its decent nothing wrong with the specs but a $300 one with a $30 ram upgrade will feel the same. (disclaimer: I have had bad experiences with HP so I am more negative about the brand)

[Daedalus_357]

http://www.pricewatch.com/notebooks/

enjoy ;-)

[Argentine]

you should actually go down to the store and do all sorts of stuff with it like actually try to carry it etc and ask millions of questions.

I didnt realise how heavy my laptop was until i tried to bring it to school lol when i first bought it.

[WeEzY]

looks good to me. since your into movies/music, the altec lansing speakers are a great brand. only thing i would change is getting one that supports wireless N and an intel.

use this coupon to get another $20 off
http://www.sendspace.com/file/qc52wh

[jojo16]

so they just restocked and now there are 103 in stock! Should I get it? With the coupon code I received in my email, it should be 529.99 CDN before taxes.

[Kant]

I say no. That HDD is only 5400RPM, standard nowadays is 7200. I would get a smaller HDD with a faster RPM. Yes that GPU is lacking a bit, it'll struggle on WoW and probably won't play some of the latest FPS games. Don't expect to have AA/AF on.

I have pretty high requirements, but maybe that's just me.

[Misfate]

Any budget that you have?