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Where Did You Get Your Laptop?

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Where Did You Get Your Laptop?

  • OEM Site (Dell, Gateway)

    Votes: 105 33.7%
  • Local Retailer (BestBuy, Fry's)

    Votes: 57 18.3%
  • Local Retail Website (BestBuy.com, Outpost.com)

    Votes: 6 1.9%
  • Online Reseller (Newegg)

    Votes: 42 13.5%
  • Auction / Classifieds (EBay, Newspaper, Forum Classifieds)

    Votes: 40 12.8%
  • Family / Friends (Uncle Joe)

    Votes: 10 3.2%
  • Gift (Christmas, Hand-me-down)

    Votes: 6 1.9%
  • Other (Found it in box of Cracker Jacks)

    Votes: 46 14.7%

  • Total voters
    312
Last Christmas...BrandsMart HP dv4225 (dv4000 series)

Price at the time...
HP direct--$849
BrandsMart on black Friday--$499

Not too bad a deal for a basic laptop considering my non-techy Wife shopped for it.
 
Costco lol. Their was a sale and it was the last day to get an extra $100 off lol. Good deal 2 years ago !
 
My first one was free from the military, had to upgrade though so I went with Alienware.
 
Mine's from Dell

It's an Inspiron 1520

T7500
2Gb G. Skill RAM (installed by yours truly)
8600M GT
1440x900
Vista Home Premium
120Gb 7200RPM HDD

I love it... I could've got a Macbook Pro with the same specs for $2.1k, lol.
 
I hate to admit it but I bought both of my laptops at Bestbuy because I hate buying a laptop blind and the thought of the UPS guy throwing it around kills me LOL
 
Gateway
17" WideScreen
AMD64 3700+ 2.4ghz
1G DDR400
100G HDD
Radeon 256mb
MemoryCard Reader
Wi-Fi

got it in 2003/2004 it was worth $1600. i got for $600 Brand new in a box. i dont think i can say how i got it.
 
Friend of mine works at tigerdirect and he found me a nice hp pavilion dv2000 pc for 400 bucks. 1.8 turion x2 2.5 gigs ram (i added a 2 gig stick and took out a 512) 160 gig hard drive 14.1 inches. Plays HL2DM fine at 1280x800.
 
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