Need a laptop under $700 for my son
 

Windows XP must be an option.

Other than that - I'm clueless which way to turn. Where does one get the best bang for the buck?

you would be hard pressed to not find a basic laptop for under $700 these days

just got my buddy a dual core athlon with 2gb of ram for $499

Really? Where? Model?

checkout circuitcity they r having crazy sales this week....and being columbus day weekend, i am sure they will have more sales....

Have you checked ebay or craigslist for some second hand ones?

If it is for school and or general use.

Do not get caught up in the hype. Find a standard cheap laptop. Most several year old lap tops are perfectly fine and fast enough to run all needed applications and the like. *unless you want him to be a big time gamer.

I personally would visit Dell then check out there refirbished area and pick up the extra waranty. You should get out of there with a hell of a laptop for well under your budget if not under half of it. With a full warenty

dell small business has been running some deals, check out fatwallet or gotapex

check out ben's bargains :)

omg...only 499, where???

hold on guys, i have to find it again

i think this was it, I must have hit it during a sale or something

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...485&CatId=1897

let me find the reciept and see if it has a direct link to the laptop

Dell usually has periodic sales around that range to as low as the 690+ range.

OMFG

glad I logged in to check the order status, what fuckers

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G153-MX6448
Gateway MX6448 T64 x2 1.6/1GB/120/DVDRW/XPMC NB RB
Status: Cancelled
$499.97 $499.97

what assholes

i recently bought an apple ibook for $250...

really? odd I've ordered 3 or more PC's and the 17" laptop I'm on now from them along with tons of other stuff and never had a problem with them. I'd email them and see whats up

but yeah I was going to post check them out cause they always have great deals

yeah, I have ordered a lot of shit from them too, no idea what is up

it says too call customer service and it will be a "exchange item" scenario, so I assume they were preselling the laptop and gateway backed out or something

yeah the factory refurbished they only have so many and maybe that day they sold 2 when they only had one is my bet but yeah my 17" WS with a gig of ram and dvd burner was well under a grand and has been nothing but great refurbished or not

Invest more and put your son on a mac, it'll be better in the long run ;-)

This is the only site you need

http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=NBB

Personally I wouldn't buy a second hand laptop, I have a small mountain of half-dead laptops that will work for a time and they have various intermittent problems - screens will die, power will turn off for no reason (plugged in with charged battery), system will BSOD - clean windows reinstall didn't solve problem... etc. I think a good number of people selling second hand ones probably have some issues with them, even if they don't know it. I usually have a new laptop last about 6-8 months before it starts having serious issues - and it's a problem to get warranty repair because usually the issues come and go so I can't prove it. Buy new, cheap, and get a good warranty - that's my advice. I have had a panasonic toughbook (which I'm typing on) last over 2 years without any problems, but at about 4-5 times the cost of a regular notebook - I'm not sure it's worth it.

I hear you on that, but this isn't the time. He's 14 and it's his first "big ticket" item, he's paying for half and that's what he can afford. Plus, I view it like a first car - ALWAYS give a kid a beater, because they're going to run it into a pole or something anyway before they learn to respect what they've got :1orglaugh

I would never have considered Dell before, but those are some nice prices, hot damn!

I have found lots of used laptops and desktop computers on craigslist. You just have to find the people neededing cash

oddly enough, i picked up a nice little HP at Best Buy for $699. They had a similar Gateway for $599. should stroll into the store and check em out.

thanks for the input everyone!

Wolfy, they've got that HP for $699 at Costco. It's a nice machine with basic bells and whistles. But here's the plus at Costco: They extend the manufacturers warranty another year. So you get 2 years.

omg just go to
wal-maRt fool