I too, ordered a Zx5000

With the HP sport backpack.

I couldn't see a need to pay a 300 dollar premium to the Dell 8600 for longer battery life, so I went with the regular P4 chip.

total cost with backpack: 1550 with student discount.

P4 3.0 /HT
256 megs RAM (will order a 512 stick from Newegg)
b/g/bluetooth wireless
128mb ATI 9600
15.4" WSXGA+ screen
60Gb 5400 RPM HDD
DVD/CDRW combo
12 cell battery.

est. shipping date is July 20th, hopefully it will come earlier.

will write up a report once I get it!

 

Nice price! How much will your 512 cost? Let us know how you like it when it comes, especially gaming.

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Oops - I thought you paid $1150... What you paid is definetly not a nice price for what you got...Did you get some extra warranty?

I just tried the same configuration and it came out to $1411 after student discount; $1294 with a 4200RPM 60GB HD...I woulda went for that...

 

well that's the "pay for" price. There's also a mail in rebate once I get it.. the backpack costs 50 bucks, so the actual laptop was almost exactly 1,500 dollars, without rebate.

I will be getting 512 Mb Crucial RAM, which will cost an extra 100 dollars. This will bring my total RAM to 768. and for 69 dollars more I will get the MX900 wireless mouse for use with the notebook.

 

seems a bit high?


Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 3.00 GHz w/HT Technology
Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Home
512MB DDR SDRAM (1x512MB)
60 GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive
DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive
54g(TM) Integrated Broadcom 802.11b/g Wireless LAN
FREE Upgrade from 15" XGA to 15.4" WXGA (1280x800)
128MB ATI Mobility Radeon(TM) 9600
Microsoft(R) Works/Money
12 Cell Lithium Ion Battery

hpshopping price $1,573.00
app price $1,478.62
instant rebate -$0.00
mail-in rebate -$50.00
price $1,428.62

 

Alright, this thing should arrive TOMORROW! and they said estimated shipping date July 20th.. Ha.

will write up a review once I get it.

 

yeah i got mine way before the ship date too, it was like 10 days before the ship date!

Compaq R3000T (CTO)
P4 Desktop 3.0GHz w/HT
1 X 512MB RAM
Radeon 9600 128MB
60GB 5,400 RPM HD
No mods/overclocking: GPU: 310MHz, Memory: 190MHz
AquaMark: 19,796
PCMark04: 3955
3DMark03: 2508
Over clocked GPU: 378MHz, Memory: 256.5
Aquamark3: 24,257
3DMark03: 3,115

 

wow, I'm in Portland too! and it's sitting in Fedex's Portland center at the moment as well! wowza.

and nice, we got almost identical specs too.

 

I too ordered a ZX 5000. and I too am getting it today... Ship date said the 21st, but nope.. It's sittin in Portland OR's Fedex center right now.

BTW
p4 3.0ghz
256x2 ram
60 GB 4200 (yeah yeah.. i know[V][V])
Radeon 9600 128
uh.. 15.4 WUXSGA or whatever it is.
yeah.. finally a nice machine.. not gonna have to use my g/f's anymore...

Review when i get it.

-psi

btw.. Why is there not a ZX5000 avatar?

 

I am in portland too, and receive my zt3000 today!

 

Cool, we got at least three portland people with HP's who check this forum [ ]

 

WORD!!! That's funny as hell! we should all hook up or something... lol.. (why.. i dunno. but that's just too funny.. damnit fed-ex man.. HURRY UP!!! WE'RE ALL WAITING!)

I'm awake now.. 8:30, and waiting for it.. 2 hours max they say...
<looks @ watch>

[V]

<looks @ watch>

-psi

 

haha, this is rather funny 3 people all ordering HPs about the same time and they all live in the same city and are on teh same forum [ ]

zx5000 :: 2.4M :: 512 DDR :: 40gb 4200 RPM HD :: 15.4" :: Radeon 9600 Mobilty M10 :: Aquamark3 22,856