P-6860FX in BBY warehouses

Yes, I'm aware of this, having worked at Best Buy during college. That comment was directed toward the person that said they called Gateway and was told it was better to buy from them rather than from Best Buy.

 

Ah, I'm sorry. Thought you were referring to me.

 

does anyone one know if the price of the p-6831fx will lower is yes and to what price and when
right now it's still at $1 249 in bestbuy.com
thanks

 

looks like 6860FX is in stock now, just checked the BB site and found them available at almost every single stores

 

just dropped by my local best buy and they had 6 in stock. problem was they didnt have it on display yet but luckily the salesguy i talked to was kind enough to open 1 up for me to take a look.i guessed he wanted to look at it himself since he said hes a gamer. the thing looked SEXY!!!

 

Anyone know when will this show back up on the website for purchase from there? I live no where near a best buy.

 

Thanks Caliban and Melchior for responding to my question regarding purchases at BBY or direct from Gateway. The rep was quite annoying, when I first asked him the question his immediate response was "Oh, only price shoppers got to retail like BBY, and used price shopping like it was a dirty word, then he went into the song and dance about no restore disk Etc., anyway thanks to everybody for your comments.

 

I just picked up my 6860 from BB, I gota say I am loving it so far. I am doing my backup now so that I can reinstall windows, then Il be installing ubuntu. The build quality is much better then the acer that I am retiring. I cant wait to see how this runs C&C Kanes Wrath tomorrow.

 

nice! keep us updated

 

Well its sunday the 27th but on the BB website the price is still listed as $1349.99.. What gives? Wasnt it suppose to go down to $1249.99?

 

I believe they dont update the website untill after about 3:00am EST or later. Ive been checking them and Circuit City for price matches on some item lately and thats what Ive noticed.

 

The prices dont go into affect till early morning tomorrow. usually around 700am eastern time atleast from my experience. if you search fatwallet.com and look for next weeks bestbuy ads you can find the sales going on . the 6860 is on there for $1249 or $1299 with free game plus the Geeksquad cleanup.

 

Quadzilla is correct, 7am EDT is about when it should update.

 

hmmm I just checked and its updated.. Time to finally pull the trigger!

 

it's 1250$ + a free game, heheh even better than i expected. like coolest i ordered one online as well. i'll go pick it up from my nearest store tomorrow if availability is comfirmed

 

Woot. I just checked and noticed that the 6860 was on sale this morning. I was going to buy it last night, but something made me wait. Glad I did. Unfortuantly I have to wait, I have to have it shipped, I can't pick it up like alot of other lucky people...sob .

Now its time to order me a T8300.

 

Bought mine friday at BB for $1349.99 and it was tax free weekend but by today they were down to $1249.99 or $1299.99 with a free game. I went and got my $100 back which they gave in cash and bought a 1 year accidental warranty for it. Just bought Crysis and a bag for it as well. Loving it so far.

 

Just curious how much extra was the 1year warranty because i know the 3yr is very expensive!

 

I just bought one today, that makes three of these suckers, my whole family is FXed now

 

lol you deserve a rep for that!

 

1 year supplemental accidental service plan is 99.99 on all notebooks at BBY.

 

anyone know whether this is shipping with 32-bit or 64-bit Vista? BB didn't mention, but I wonder if all 4GB ram would shot up in 32-bit.

edit: NM, first review on the bb website said it was 64-bit

 

It is loaded with 64bit, but the gateway system disk that comes with it shows both 32/64 bit

 

made a backup of the contents on the one partition, wiped the harddrive and installed a clean version of Vista 32. Was going to put 64 on it, and it's nice that it came with it, but I don't want to take the chance with drivers or other compatibility issues.

Has anyone had any harddrive/Vista issues? After some heavy usage over the weekend, installing over 100 gigs, something got corrupted and Vista would hang right before the desktop would appear, and then reboot over and over in a cycle. Not sure what happened. So yesterday I wiped again, formatted, and reinstalled everything. I'm now a bit scared that I have a bad harddrive, but if it was, wouldn't it just fail completely? I'm guessing something got screwy with Vista, hopefully.

btw, i found the software backup on the one partition pretty useless. After formatting and getting rid of the partition, I put the intel 4965 driver on my thumbdrive, installed it, logged onto my network, and had Vista download all my other drivers with the latest versions. The only driver I had to download from Gateway was the modem driver for HD audio, and that's it. Has everyone else gone through this as well?

 

yeah, i had 64 almost completely set up but then a couple of drivers were only compatible with 32 so i had to do a complete reinstall.

 

NOOdi13s, Which P FX series are you trying to install 64bit onto? I what to try it on my P-171x fx, I am wondering about the fingerprint reader, that is the only component that is different from the P-6080 fx.

 

i got the 6860, the driver was for an external wireless antenna.gateway should probably have a 64bit driver for the fingerprint reader tho

 

go to www.gateway.com/support and register your product with your serial number. and then go to download and look for your drivers. i don't know, maybe it's in there, maybe it's not

 

yeah, I bought mine on saturday, they will give me a hundred bucks back, but they won't let me have the free game unless i bring the laptop back and repurchase it...

 

You pay 50.00 for the game and a geek squad tune up, the game is not free. It says they update the video and audio drivers, what is there to update, they woun't use the laptopvideo2go.com drivers, and there is no audio driver update that I know of. I just bought mine for $1,249.99 pluse Crysis $39.99 Total $1,289.98 and I did not need to wait for the geek squad (2 hours)

 

that's odd, i bought this laptop for 1250$ and when picking up, i showed the guy the website that tells you a free game for buying 6860FX. and viola, a free COD4

 

Well you got a great deal, my best buy person read the ad twice lol

 

yea i was told the same and they wouldnt give me the free game..They said I would have to buy the Geek Squad tune up inorder to get the game for free.. Which was another $75

 

yea i was told the same and they wouldnt give me the free game..They said I would have to buy the Geek Squad tune up inorder to get the game for free.. Which was another $75

 

on the internet you get a game and the laptop for 1250.. which is odd because that is not how it is in the stores.. so I might buy off the internet and do in store pickup.

 

I wonder if I show the internet deal to the store I bought it from , if they will give me a $39.99 credit?

 

yea i was told the same and they wouldnt give me the free game..They said I would have to buy the Geek Squad tune up inorder to get the game for free.. Which was another $75

 

flynnaz,

would you mind describing the backup process further, and or where to go to get all the correct drivers for this laptop?

thanks!

 

The backup process in in the book that comes with the laptop, its the smaller book, and the instructions are about 3/4 of the way back. If you goto Start, All Programs, I think Gateway restore, pick the bottom option, backup the drivers and apps, then pick create a full system backup, it makes a dvd or cd image you will need a blank DVD. I did fresh installs withe the Gateway system disk, then looked in device manager for the componits that had missing drivers, used the backup apps/driver dvd that I made, and also got the latest drivers from gateway.com support site.

 

is there anything valuable on the backup disks that come with the 6860? I didn't see anything that I'll probably use.

 

Just make a Driver/Apps backup, it has some apps that are usefull

 

like the hot start button, and the cyberlink apps

 

i made the backup, but it's all a bunch of zip files with numbers for the labels. I can't tell which is which. Is there a way to extract everything that will unzip all of them?

 

you should be able to run a exe file then you pick wich drivers and apps you want to install.

 

mine runs autostart when i put it in, then it lets you choose between driver or application restoring

 

I just used my Driver backup, after a failed attempt to install a new video driver. I can not figure out how to install a moded video driver, the instructions look easy, but I can not get it to work. I installed 174.74 xfastest drivers no problem on my 32bit lappys but my 64bit, im lost

 

what have you done so far, flynnaz? in regards to the 64 bit video driver.

 

I reloaded the stock driver. I will wait untill I find a way to install a newer one.

 

where did you put the modded inf file at?

 

I extracted the main file, then took the modded inf file and put it in the newly extracted file, ran the setup file in that folder, and it does not install the driver, it starts too, but at the end it says no modifications have been made?