$399 15.4" Compaq refurb notebook: X2 2GHz, 4GB, 8200M, DVDR/RW, 250GB

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Seems like a decent deal to me. No rebates to deal with. $399+shipping @ Frys. Shipping was estimated under $8 for me.

Also includes
Inland 2-Fan Notebook Cooler
Inland 15.6" Neoprene Laptop Sleeve
Inland Screen/Keyboard Cleaning Kit

90 days warranty
Vista® Home Premium with Service Pack 1
AMD Athlon X2 QL-62 Dual-Core Processor 2.00 GHz, Cache 1 MB L2 Cache
4096MB DDR2 (2 Dimm)
Max supported =4096MB
NVIDIA GeForce 8200M up to 895mb
250GB (5400RPM)
SuperMulti 8X DVD?R/RW with Double Layer Support
15.4" WXGA BrightView Widescreen (1280 x 800)
10/100 Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)
802.11b/g WLAN
56k modem
 
very very warm at least because of the non-intel graphics. if i had my laptop sold by now i would jump on this.
 
warm, but not special in my mind. This laptop was special. It was $358 until yesterday at frys. (Toshiba was doing an instant rebate that drop it from 408 to 358 and frys had it on sale to 408). This is for a new laptop not a refurbished.

Note it has 3 gb of ram instead of 4 and a smaller hard drive, but a slighty faster processor. It also had a slightly better graphic chip.

http://shop3.frys.com/product/5815703?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

TOSHIBA L305-S5930 (AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core Processor QL-64 3gb Ram memory, 160GB Hard Drive 15.4" Display Windows Vista Premium
Toshiba:
FRYS.com #: 5815703
Operating System Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium with Service Pack 1
Processor AMD Athlon™ X2 Dual-Core Processor QL-64

Processor Speed 2.16 GHz
Processor Cache 1 MB L2 Cache
Bus Speed HyperTransport™3, up to 3.6(GT/sec)
Memory 3072MB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimms may be used) Max Supported = 4096MB

Accessible Memory Slots 2
Video Graphics ATI Radeon™ 3100 Graphics
Hard Drive 160GB (5400RPM) Hard Drive (SATA)
Finish and Features Glossy Black with Onyx Blue Lid

Multimedia Drive SuperMulti DVD +/-R/RW with Double Layer Support with Labelflash™
Display 15.4" Diagonal widescreen TruBrite® TFT LCD display at 1280 x 800 native resolution (WXGA)
Network Card Integrated 10/100 Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)
Wireless Option Atheros® 802.11 b/g wireless-LAN
Digital Media 4-in-1 Bridge Media Adapter for Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia card™, Memory Stick™, Memory Stick Pro™, Secure Digital High Capacity card
Fax/Modem High speed 56k modem
Audio Built-in stereo speakers, sound volume control dial
Keyboard 86 key US keyboard
Pointing Device TouchPad™ pointing device, TouchPad™ Enable/Disable
External Notebook Ports
3 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0, 1 USB port shared with eSATA port
1 Headphone out
1 microphone-in
1 VGA (15-pin)
1 RJ-11 (modem)
1 RJ -45 (LAN)
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The nvidia 8200 mobile edition isn't that good of a graphics. Don't confuse it with its desktop brethen, the desktop version which has 16 stream processors, the mobile version has 8 stream processors.

The toshiba laptop I referenced is the ati radeon 3100. It is identical the the ati radeon 3200 but instead of 500 mhz clock it is a mere 300. Notebookcheck puts the ati3100 as faster than the nvidia 8200m but that isn't saying much for both of these graphics are barely anything. (but still enough to play wow).
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

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To top it all off. The laptop has a 6 cell battery. But if you bought a 2nd battery at the same time as the laptop, Frys/Toshiba has a 50 dollar instant rebate that dropped the 119 battery to $69. For a 9 cell second battery.
 
i prefer compaq much more over toshiba though... but for a budget buy, the brand really doesnt matter much i guess.
 
I prefer toshiba over compaq and about the same for an hp vs toshiba. Now I am losing faith in hp/compaq refurbs for there last batch of refurbs laptops had problems in like 4 of them out of a shipment of 30 (motherboard problems).
 
You are probably right. There's probably a reason so many of these are refurbed :rolleyes:

I'd avoid hp/compaq like the plague, especially with a nvidia mobile gpu..
 
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