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    Forget the $399 laptop,check this out for $999 (Blu-ray,Vist ultimate)

    Discussion in 'Notebook and Tech Bargains' started by reasonabledave, Nov 25, 2007.

  1. reasonabledave

    reasonabledave Notebook Enthusiast

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    Best Buy has this ACER 17" laptop, on sale thru next Saturday, it has CoreDuo 5250, 2gb Ram, Nvidia dedicated 8400gm ,256mb,250 gb HD,Windows Vista Ultimate, and Blu-Ray disc drive. The deal also includes 2 free Blue-Ray Movies of your choice! This has got to be one of the best holiday deals out there. I am typing this on one of these, and it is excellent.
    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8621707&type=product&id=1193234282708
     
    reasonabledave, Nov 25, 2007
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  2. nizzy1115

    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    how come dells site says you need a min of the c2d 7100 for the blueray player and this has the 5250? Also, i think it needs a better graphics card too? and no hdmi????
     
    nizzy1115, Nov 26, 2007
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    jihoon Notebook Evangelist

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    Because dell figures that anyone who's willing to pay the extra$$ for bluray won't stop @ the cost of a cpu upgrade.
    I'm not sure about notebooks, but a lot of the 8400gs desktop gpu's are hdcp, because it's used mostly in hdpc setups.
     
    jihoon, Nov 26, 2007
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    vermicious Notebook Consultant

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    The nVidia GPUs should be able to decode Blu Ray through hardware making the CPU requirements irrelevant.
     
    vermicious, Nov 27, 2007
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