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    Sandy Bridge in HP 17.3" for less then 1150$!

    Discussion in 'Notebook and Tech Bargains' started by James D, Jan 9, 2011.

  1. James D

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    James D, Jan 9, 2011
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    That's the same model as the Microcenter one, the dv7-4290us. I think it might have been $50-$100 less there, though. Also available from Amazon for the same price as Best Buy.
     
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    Good comment. As I said I just came across that offer and was shocked of price. I didn't make a review of points of sells of this model

    Why wouldn't you put here links where you found cheaper so other who did not hear about such good deals would know that?

    P.S. Still people should know prices in many shops if they have some card's or special offers from exact shops
     
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    It was out of stock at Microcenter last I checked, but the link is here. Looks like the savings I remembered is from a $50 HP MIR. The Amazon link is here. At Walmart, it's listed for $1098 here. Priceblink has numerous other listings for it as well, as does a simple Google shopping search for "dv7-4290us". It seems that Walmart has the best price and availability at present.
     
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    Yeah...right now Wal-Mart is the winner....
    It is so odd that Wal-Mart is cheaper than HP....

    I'm in the middle of emailing HP right now.... My dv6tse with a first gen i-5 is going back... I just have to figure out if I want to go with an SB i7 in a dv6 or dv7. I would also like to keep my $500 coupon from last week....but I'm not sure if I can pull that off.
     
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    This laptop look great except for the slow HD but overall very nice for the price at walmart. Have anyone try it yet?
     
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    HD = Hard Drive. It's a 5400 RPM drive.
     
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    I got used to call it HDD :) I guess there are 2 HDD 512 GB. It is big + in speed questions
     
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    I suspect it's a single 12.5 mm 1TB HDD. The DV7 has the option of 2TB in RAID (1TB x 2) so we know it's big enough to take them.
     
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    Yeh that's what I meant HDD =P. Can't complaint about the graphic card there, pretty sweet.
     
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    Unless you're set on HP, get a Sager NP8130 for ~$1200 shipped with 15.4" 1920x1080 LED, i7-2630QM, GTX 460m, 8GB DDR3, 500GB 7200RPM, DVDRW.
     
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    I looked at a NP8130 from xoticpc, as you described it, is there a reason why it doesn't ship with Windows 7 installed and costs $90 extra? Thanks.
     
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    Hope this helps. The notebook also does not come with the necessary 2nd hdd caddy cable and kit. You can order though the dv7-4000 series caddy kit from newmodeUS and it works fine.
     
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    Sagers are fully customizable. Even though it doesn't allow you on the site, you can even have items removed from the machine to reduce costs if you already have that component to install yourself. For example, I just ordered an NP8170 minus the hard drive and memory because I already have an SSD, hard drive, and RAM to put in it, as well as an OS. That is one benefit of these machines.

    I just noted this NP8130 because the specs are better for not much more money than the HP.
     
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    How did you do that if it is not possible on their site? For example about OS. What they will come to you, clean your HDD and take ticket with serial number of OS or what. I'm interested about buying without HDD, memory and OS but how can I find how price reduces for each item?
     
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    There are a few reps here at NBR. I just PM'd them and asked if they could remove the HDD and RAM. I ended up ordering from XoticPC, although LPC-Digital is also quite easy to deal with.

    I believe these systems come preconfigured with CPU and GPU only and the resellers install RAM, HDD, and optical drive. They don't come with Windows, you have to pay for that separately so there's no stripping of stickers or anything, they add it from the OEM Windows package.

    The point of Sagers is user configurability and upgradeability. You could swap out the CPU and GPU in 20 minutes.

    The different rep usernames are:

    Justin@XoticPC - from XoticPC (obviously)
    babyhemi - from LPC Digital
    Paladin44 - from PowerNotebooks (wouldn't remove components for me though)
    MALIBAL - from Malibal (obviousl)
     
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