Asus - Laptop with Intel® Centrino® 2 Processor Technology [Best Buy] (Thanks, Jeff!)
]]>@Con Sumer Zealot: No he may not be, but I donate to Conumser's Union and Consumer Reports Foundation. So I guess a short note if I send a check in this year would be appropriate.
Consumer Reports is founded on authority and factuality. While even the magazine has some amusing stories like this in the back cover, it does not feature simply typographical errors like this. This is not noteworthy.
]]>Nice Gal, very professional.
Jill.Nezworski@bestbuy.com
]]>Reg. Price:
$899.99
You Save:
$50.00
Our Price:
$849.99
having dealt with 64 bit XP, i can tell you its a far worse situation.
basically MS released it IMHO as a tech test, and abandoned it. XP64 is the true sequel to ME.
]]>@EdnaLegume: seriously.. me too.
]]>Thanks for pointing this out - I just grabbed a couple!
]]>Nope. No 64-bit driver troubles here. Of course, it's Linux; that might have something to do with it. Perhaps you meant to say "64-bit Microsoft operating systems" have driver trouble, not "64-bit operating systems" in general. ;)
]]>@greenunicorns: Dude. What are you going on about and why?
]]>I think you have a point: $120 WOULD be just about right for how much they overcharge on each item, compared to online stores.
]]>@robdew2: I thought this stuff would stop when Consumer Reports took the help.
Unfortunately it has not.
]]>Careful, that kinda talk gets people disemvoweled around these parts...
]]>Ouch. I was about to post the info for Best Buy's price protection program, but Outlet Center items are excluded. That sucks.
]]>Oh wait, actually it does, all the time, and gets posted here. Again. And Again.
This is not news. This is not consumer advocacy. This is petty, boring and unoriginal.
Is this affecting thousands of people? Is the monetary ramification large? Does it happen infrequently? If the answer to at least two of those questions is not yes, it's not worth posting.
]]>Speaking of laptops on bestbuy.com, I actually had a really good experience with them this week. (At least much better than I had when I tried to buy it in store.
I wanted the Gateway FX 17-inch gaming laptop that got good reviews from most laptop sites, and it was reasonably priced at $1,149.
I went to the store near me, and after getting the Geek-Squad setup pushed on me by the salesman, and telling him I was a C.S. major and could do everything myself, he said he'd go grab it from the back.
He came out and said the only one they had was worked on by the Geek Squad (refurbished), and it would be fine, he'd just give me a discount.
I asked him if they'd be getting any new ones in, in the near future.
He said no, that he'd just give me the refurbished one.
I told him that I was no longer interested.
Then, I went to bestbuy.com, and ordered it there.
Even though I got standard shipping, it shipped the next day, and took only 2 days after shipping to get here.
The day it was expected to arrive, I saw they lowered the price by $60 online.
I called the Best Buy help-line, and the guy was glad to give me a $60+sales tax credit to my account, which was posted to my bank account the next morning.
64 bit is the way of...now.
]]>Oh yeah, and the specs are 4 GB of RAM & a 512MB graphics card - it's better to have a 64bit OS than the 4GB RAM & 1 GB video my laptop has - that came with 32bit Vista, meaning I only got ~2.5GB of my RAM as usable until I installed a 64bit OS(currently trying out Win7(64)).
]]>@ergasiophobiac: It's a laptop; how many peripherals are you going to install?
Are you going to try to hook up a laserjet4 to it?(checks - yep there's a 64bit driver for that old beast).
]]>Best buy ones had a psu that was $50 $100 more then then at a other place.
]]>Seems like he's not saying anything negative at all about windows... He simply said it's nice that the linux community provides support for the devices that the manufacturers should be supporting.
He's right, too. It's ecologically irresponsible for manufacturers to allow artificial obsolesence of peripherals because a new version of windows came out and they don't feel like tweaking some old code.
]]>@Joe Reilly: ahahahaha you have temporarily redeemed facebook posters in my eyes.
]]>@ergasiophobiac: Yeah, you know, the 64-bit operating system is CLEARLY the biggest issue I see with this purchase.
@larrymac: Whoooooosh, indeed.
]]>And just to keep you from being (further?) confused, that's the sound of the point of this article going over your head.
]]>I guess this is as good of a time as any to bash Vista, huh?
]]>Truth in advertising FTW!
]]>Or you could get with the times and buy modern equipment instead of using dinosaurs
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