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HP Pavilion dv2500t customizable Notebook PC * • Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit) * • Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor T7100 (1.80 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB) * • 14.1" WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800) * • $50 OFF Upgrade from 1GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm) to 2GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)!! * • 319MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS * • FREE Upgrade to HP Imprint (Radiance) + Fingerprint Reader + Microphone * • Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection and Bluetooth(TM) * • 120GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive * • SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support * • No TV Tuner w/remote control * • 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery * • Microsoft(R) Works 8.0 * • HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope ok forget about how it says 50 dollars off, pretend the computer comes with 2 GB memory

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1. Starting off with the vista, I would make sure that it was 64-bit, then I would demand that the ram was 4gb. If they won't do the upgrade for oyu, decline the "50 off" and buy it online and either do it oyur self or have someone else do it for oyu. here is a good 4GB set for $40 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227251 The display is a little small, but workable. Does lend its self to a portable situation. The graphics card is adequate, not top of the line but workable. The finger print reader is a nice touch, but certainly not a "free" upgrade. You will probably pay for it in the sticker price Wireless lack N but has blue tooth so that is fine. Try to haggle with them, see if they can replace the "$50" coupon for the ram with a bigger hard drive. A 120GB Hdd is really un acceptable in this day and age. I would shoot for a 250GB or even a 320Gb 7200 rpm drive since they are going for $80 - $90 bucks online. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136280 The dvd player in this is standard don't let anyone tell oyu different. Funny that they would tell oyu that the laptop doesn't come with a tv tuner or remote? The battery is standard ecpect about 3-5 hours depending on how much work is done on it. This laptop is pretty standard with some nice features and some not so nice features, looking at the ram and hard drive. I would probably expect to pay about $700- $800 out the door, but it would depend on weather they would be willing to improve the ram situation, windows verion and hard rive capacity. if not, then I would haggle the price down some, oyu CAN do this to some degrea, then follow the links I probided and buy the products I listed. Microsoft will send you a free 64 bit upgrade cd if you ask them to. have either yourself or a freind do the nessesary upgrades, you will find more than enough help online. Heck you could even ask all your questions here I and countless other would be more than will ing to suplpy the answers. Box store computer and laptops are hardley ever complete when they come home. But we are usually to afraid to work on them or are ignorant to the fact that they are not what they should be. Then after four or five years we think. "Gee, this thing is getting old and slow, I think it's time to buy a new one. If you do what I recomend, it will be many years before you even begin to think. Staying ahead of the curve is what keaps our computers functional, not shellign out thopusands of dollars every couple of years. Hope this helps
2. $50 OFF Upgrade from 1GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm) to 2GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)!!??????????????????????? I would pay less than 500 dollars.. But I just want to add, a 1gb memory add is worth less than 10 dollars.. LESS.. Like probably 5.. Best things are the battery and processor, everything else is okay.. Good prices are tigerdirect.com or compusa.com
3. I'd pay 5 bucks 'cause I already have a better computer. So i would sell off the parts and make some monies
4. $350
5. 200
6. what do u think? i alredy got a laptop
7. $300
8. £200 I have better specs than that, paid £230. That's what, $332?
9. 700 to 1,000 dollars. Jack
10. Disadvantages to your proposed configuration: Windows Vista (any version), Intel Processor (1.8 GHz is a very slow cpu to do anything but the most mundane things like word processing. you can forget playing any high-end games on it). A 14" screen is a joke no matter how "bright" it is.. 50 bucks off the ram is an old marketing trick, and it depends on what they say MSRP is.. They can make it look really good when in reality SODIMMs (laptop ram) is very expensive. NVIDIA makes good video cards along with ATI but 319 mb falls short on graphics-intensive applications, i.e. that is not one of the better cards. a 120 GB drive MIGHT be enough capacity for a while but the 5400 RPMs will not make that drive a speed demon. it is not one of the newer SATA drives by any means. An 8X DVD, any manufacturer, is very slow. Again, you are not getting something great as the newest DVD's run at 22X. Do you realize how expensive dual layer blank dvds are to buy? They recently had a "Breakthrough" LMAO, when one manufacturer built a laptop battery that lasts 8 hours!! (There goes your "portability" for your laptop if you have to work OVERTIME (more than 8 hours)). Do you realize how much laptop batteries are to REPLACE? Microsoft Works???? You gotta be kidding!!! I bet they will have an offer on that laptop to UPGRADE to their Office 2007 Suite "for a really good price" (lol)). MS Works is purposely-feature-deficient software designed to get you hooked on microsoft office suite products. You will outgrow it very soon because it does next to nothing. If you don't know any better (Microsoft PLANS on that) then you will assume you have to have their software to recognize the file headers and read the docs correctly. Time to Upgrade to the Office Suite, and they will "make it very easy on you" cuz you can probably download a preview copy that will work once you buy a more expensive version and put a valid CD Key in. LMAO, See how nice they are???? It's called Planned Obsolescence... It's an HP laptop and they are overpriced to begin with, you are getting old technology/hardware that will not be all that upgradeable and will not be cheap to do so. You may be lucky and get a set of Restoration CD's, but that software is Designed to be used on that machine Only. OEM software lives and dies on the machine it was installed on. Add the fact that you now have a portable, designed-to-be-disposable, expensive-to-fix-and-upgrade computer that you can DROP, SPILL coffee and pop on and have some idiot STEAL it, I would pay no more than $125.00 for it. The Markup on laptops is just as bad or worse than it is on Stereo Equipment. If you knew what it really costs to build that machine you would crap.... BUT, you probably can get an Extended Warranty for it!!!! When are people going to realize that if a product is that well built you don't need an extended warranty cuz it is not going to break in the first place???