I am thinking about getting a laptop for general/light use like watching DVDs and browsing the web on the go. Will the cheapest Dell laptop will do it for me? I plan to keep it for no mora than 2 years. Or should I wait until black friday?
They have this one for 599.00 http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=i6400lo&cs=04&dgvcode=ss&c=US&l=EN
They will porb. have cheaper laptops on black friday but, chances are they will have 10 or less per store, around 300-400 dollars w/ some kind of rebate to 1 year Commitment to like AOL and the specs wont be a good, prob celeron or sempron processor (lowcache) and 256mb ram at best. They will also have others with better specs, but those will porb. be around 700 and up.
You are correct. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping) "Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is historically one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year. Many consider it the "official" beginning to the holiday season. Most retailers will open very early and usually provide massive discounts on their products.
The use of the word "black" relates to business accountants traditionally recording losses in red ink and profits in black ink."
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Posted - Oct 29 2006 : 10:40PM
News are that there will be a $400 laptop soon at Wall Mart.
Many people, incorrectly, think that it's the busiest shopping day of the year. That may be true in terms of the number of people shopping, but not in terms of sales.
Depending on what day of the week Christmas falls on, the 4 or 5 weekend days before Christmas all exceed the day after Thanksgiving in terms of dollars spend shopping.
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Posted - Nov 5 2006 : 11:59PM
Some say that on Black Friday there might be evenv $250 laptop.
$398.00 * Mobile AMD Sempron Processor 3300+ * 2.00GHz processor speed * 128KB L2 Cache * 512MB 333MHz DDR System Memory * 24X DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive * 60GB (5400RPM) Hard Drive * ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M IGP with 128MB DDR (shared) * Integrated 10/100Base-T Ethernet LAN (RJ45 connector) * 54g 802.11b/g WLAN with 125HSM / SpeedBooster support * High Speed 56K modem
If there is try to stop by and see if you can play with this model. so you can get a feel for it and see if smooth or if it seem slow / sluggish. IIRC last years bestbuy or circuit city was selling Toshiba Celeron M 370 Notebook 15in screen 256MB/40GB DVD/CDRW for $379.99. At $250.00 I have a feeling you will prob. get something same. low ram and small harddrive. I guess we will have to wait and see. 25days to go. :D
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Posted - Nov 6 2006 : 7:36PM
No Walmart in NYC, only in New Jersey and I bet that they are out of stock already. It was said that everyv Walmart would have 15 units starting at Nov 5, a deal like this goes out of stock probably by the end of the 1st day.