QX9300 for $288.12 @ AVADirect

http://www.avadirect.com/product_details_parts.asp?PRID=11494

 

Omg, that is the best deal I've ever seen anywhere in my entire life
It's cheaper than a Q9200 ES..

 

http://www.avadirect.com/product_details_parts.asp?PRID=11365
they have the P8400 for 110 too! Great price.

 

Too bad that they will cancel the orders. This is one of those deals where it is too good to be true. If the price was $1288, then it would be the regular price but $288 is just impossible.

 

Yeah and their P9700 is 4 bills. I was hoping to find a deal there.

 

avadirect pricing is very weird. When I was buying the ms-1651 from them the processor choices showed the P8700 to be cheaper than the P8600 and the P8400 was more expensive than both of them. The prices have been changed now but it shows the T3400 to be more expensive than the P8400 by 40$ when the T3400 is a pentium dual core and the P8400 is C2D and it's 2.26 Ghz compared to the 2.16

 

HP parts store is also selling QX9300's well below suggested retail of somewhere north of a g. Supply and demand, deleveraging, enthusiasts looking toward mobile i7? When the QX9300 machines first hit the market, the market was in a huge downturn. The Qosmio X305-Q708, essentially the same machine that I have except with QX9300 instead of P8400 was $4200 where -Q706 with P8400 was $1999 suggested retail.

I have been suspicious that manufacturers misread price points ,for example device manager showed QX9300 instead of P8400 on my machine suggesting that Toshiba ordered too many Q708's and reconfigured them to Q-706's.

 

I think you hit it on the head here.

 

i just purchased one. let's see if it gets canceled. i probably will but i'm hoping it wont.

 

Well is that not false advertising? You could argue it was shown at that price? Try it though..

 

Incredible price, post if you guys receive one.

 

i am gona try my best to get it done. it might be a special labor day sale. im going to fight for it. at this price, i can become a pretty nasty person.

 

Sometimes they throw it in the small print to protect themselves against pricing mistakes. The big companies do it.

 

That doesn't mean the companies that make mistakes aren't accountable for these errors. Dell had to send out monitors at a much lower rate (I believe in Malaysia, a few months back) and Lenovo even sent out X200s w/ SSDs at a lower rate than w/ HDDs (approx 1/2 a year ago). The worst they can do is cancel the order, there are times when they will complete the order, so just hope you get lucky!

 

i ordered 2 , but im almost 100% positive they will be cancelled. no way they will sell them for that even hp is loosing money on these at the price they are letting them go for

 

Dell was sued to honor the price and I believe they only lost because of the laws in Malaysia. I remember the Lenovo deal but I don't think they were forced to honor the price. I believe they did honor it then pulled the error.

 

but with the handful of people buying these imo no lawsuit will come of this.. unless someones got lots of money to burn

 

Given the order popularity, I think they're going to say it's out of stock as an excuse .

 

From: http://www.avadirect.com/terms_of_sale.asp

 

exactly what i was thinking (than hand on face thing) when i saw this thread my friend

 

Even at that price it wouldnt be much of an upgrade from my Q9000 since it OC's to 2.7ghz easy. I dont think the 300-500mhz more I may get from OC is going to be worth that.

For many it could be though.

 

^ You can overclock QX9300 to you know. And it goes to 3.3 in some machines. Plus the double cache. It is definitly an upgrade over Q9000.

 

I know thats why I said that.

its an upgrade but not a major one, only in the situations that I fully stress the q9000 would it make any difference, and that is only encoding and I have not been doing much encoding of the late, and when I have a big job I do it on my desktop anyways.

The question is not so much "is it an upgrade?" of course it is, thats common sense. But how much of an upgrade and is it worth the cost. that question is the real one and I dont think its would be a large upgrade and not worth the cost.

the cache I am sorry to say is not a big deal at all, when I OCed my q9000 to the QX9300 speeds all scores across the board were identical the cache seems to make absolutely no real life difference so dont let that fool you into a selling point.

 

Hey, I am using a T3200 and that is also more than enough for most of my real life stuff. So I know what you mean. We are at a level where the CPU speed does not mean much unless you are buying a workhorse. If you are a developer etc then yeah go for the fast more cores CPU. But for internet surfing, causal gaming and even moderate gaming, no body really needs a fast fast CPU. I am pretty sure you are happy with the Q9000 at the stock clocks.

 

Yeah its great at stock, I bump it to 2.7ghz when I do photoshop and editing though.

Its possible somebody has a quad compatible laptop and bought it with a dual core, if that was the case a Q9000 is probably about $200 so it would maybe be worth the extra $100 for the qx9300 but I think if you already have a quad of any kind that the $300 upgrade is not worth it unless you really need the cpu power for something you do often. If that was the case I would be using the i7 Sager unit though

 

be curious to see if these get canceled tomorrow or not

 

price is up to 1179$ now

 

Yup, they canceled my order saying, "We apologize, but the item on your order is N/A.."

Not available you say? Oh well.

 

me too. they canceled.

 

same here from both mine

 

Too bad guys , nice try though.

 

Was there no one at ava direct to actually verify this price before posting it? For goodness sake, they're canceling orders as we speak and yet they continue to advertise the qx9300 at that ridiculously low price. Tsk-tsk.

 

It's an old retailer trick. It's called bait and switch.